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Is there a way in Capture to highlight selected nets?

mbmsv
mbmsv over 2 years ago

Is there a way to highlight the nets I have selected with a mouse (not through the search) in the whole design?

Thanks.



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  • AyushD
    AyushD over 2 years ago +1
    If you want to highlight a particular net in the page, select that net, right click and select "select entire net", this will highlight that net on your design page. If you want to track that net in…
  • mbmsv
    mbmsv over 2 years ago in reply to AyushD +1
    I am looking for a way to highlight selected nets in the whole design persistently. Signals is OK but it doesn't work for a group of randomly selected nets. It appears that what I want is not possible…
  • mbmsv
    mbmsv over 2 years ago in reply to steve +1
    Unfortunately, this method is too slow. In my opinion, the "highlight net" has to be accessible directly from the menu that opens on the mouse right-click just like in e.g. old P-CAD 2006. It would also…
  • mbmsv
    0 mbmsv over 2 years ago in reply to steve

    Thank you for your suggestions. Global Replace is better than nothing but it doesn't even support wildcards and wouldn't let you go through what it has found before replacing. And why on earth is it separate from the main Find function?...

    I was going to post something to that productivity improvement post in the past but hesitated as I felt that I would have to prepare a list of requests first. I should probably get it started. 

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