Copying read only problen in cadence virtuoso

It's really unclear what you're saying (even ignoring the obvious typos). The subject says something about read only - what's readonly? You then talk about "go into the library and copy it as a single file" - what does that mean? What exactly were you doing (in both the case it didn't fully work, and the case when it did work)? What was the warning?

Hello Andrew, I have a library lib1   with hirarchy of schematics.

i have made a copy of the whole library called it lib1_copy as shown bellow, however when i try to go down the hirarchy in lib1_copy on some component then it goes into a schemtics in lib1 instead of its copy in lib1_copy.

Where did i go wrong copying the library?
Thanks.

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Dear robert21,

I totally understand your issue. You must manually update the subcircuits in your new directory "lib1_copy" to point to their versions in the "lib1_copy" library. A libray copy will not update the subcrciuits within the copied library to point to their versions in the "lib1_copy" library. This is not how a library copy works.

Shawn

Hello Shawn,i tried to left click a symbol but there is no option to choose another schematics directory for this symbol.

How can i change the schematics it descends to?(without defining new symbols for every copied subcircuit and building the whole  hierarchy from scratch) 
Thanks.

Dear robert21,

You must choose the "Properties" menu item (or type Shift-q with the symbol selected). This will bring up a panel showing the cell name, view, and library. You will need to change the library to your new library.

Shawn

Hello Shawn,my hierarchy has many subcomponents,is there a way to do it automatickly?

Thanks.

Dear robert21,

robert 21 said:

is there a way to do it automatickly?

As I mentioned in my first response, without writing a SKILL script to traverse your schematic hierarchy, no.

Shawn

None of this should be necessary. The statement that Shawn made:

Unknown said:

A libray copy will not update the subcrciuits within the copied library to point to their versions in the "lib1_copy" library. This is not how a library copy works.

is not correct. This is the whole point of the "Update instances" checkbox on the form. If you don't have that checked, then the copies will be exactly the same as in the source library and no re-referencing will be done. If you enable the checkbox, then there are two choices, which will actually behave the same if the destination library doesn't exist and doesn't have any clashing cells. It should update any references to the source library (the "from" library) to the destination library in the copy (the copy updater which runs afterwards does this). So any schematics, configs, ADE views should get updated to fix the references. Hitting the Help button on the form will explain what it does.

If the copy was done without the update, or it failed for some reason (which would be unusual - this is pretty reliable nowadays), then you can also select the new library in the library manager, and use Edit->Rename Reference Library and change the references to the original library to the new library. There's also the more powerful Edit->Change Library References which could be used to achieve a similar goal - so it's fairly easy to do it for the entire library.

No need for SKILL here.

Regards,

Andrew.