skill code to turn on/off grid

Kevin,

I deleted your duplicate post; the reason it didn't get answered was almost certainly not because it was in the wrong forum but because nobody got to it yet (not helped by the fact you've asked two completely separate questions in the same thread).

Anyway, for the palette question, functions such as:

pteSetVisible("Grids" t "Grids")
pteSetVisible("Tracks" t "Grids")
pteSetVisible("Tracks;Metal2" nil "Grids")
pteSetVisible("Grids;Placement Grid" nil "Grids")

The first two turn on the Grids and Tracks as a whole (if the second argument was nil it would turn them off) and then the second pair of functions show how to turn off (or on) a specific track or grid.

To set the defaults in ViVA:

envSetVal("viva.rectGraph" "background" 'string "white")
envSetVal("viva.axis" "font" 'string "Helvetica,12,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0")
envSetVal("viva.trace" "lineThickness" 'string "medium")

Note that if you plot signals from ADE the thickness may not be honoured because it uses the colour and thickness from the packet for the layer purpose pair y0-y9 so that the schematic can be probed with the same colour as the graph. Note the above is the .cdsinit (SKILL) way of setting the variables; you could also put them in the .cdsenv file without the envSetVal(), without the quotes on the first two arguments (but remaining on the last argument) and without the single quote before 'string - e.g.

viva.rectGraph background string "white"

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew,

pteSetVisible("Grids" nil "Grids")
pteSetVisible("Tracks" nil "Grids")

doesn't seem to turn off grids which in my case are here:

Palette/Grids/Snap Patterns

Local Grids/fb1

Global Grids/GFG

Can you please take another look?

thanks,

Kevin

Kevin,

Which version (subversion - Help->About will tell you) are you using? Turning the Grids off should turn them all off. If you want to do it more selectively, you'd do:

pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" nil "Grids")
pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Global Grids;GFG" nil "Grids")

Not this is done with the layout window open - I assume you're doing it then rather than in the .cdsinit? It wouldn't know which technology you're working on otherwise...

Regards,

Andrew.

Kevin,

As I said above, this doesn't work in the .cdsinit because it doesn't know which technology you're using.  I thought you wanted something for a bindkey - my apologies.

However, from ISR11 there's a cdsenv variable to do something similar - see this article.

I think potentially it could be done with a deRegUserTriggers, but I seem to recall that there's a timing problem if you try to do that.

So I know it's one subversion above the one you're using, but hopefully you can switch to a later version and try this out?

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew, 

Our CAD engineer eventually helped out, like you suggested, w. deRegUserTriggers. 

Kevin