RatsNest Control in Allegro how to make it more usable ?

I know about this one as I keep fumbling my macro buttons on my mouse and setting the "Display only ratsnest of selected Component" feature by accident (basically no ratsnest are visible when no parts are selected.)

Must be in Placement Edit mode>  

Well you can select pins & enable the rat on a pin, It is not necessary to select whole symbols just to see rat lines.

To put things in perspective all I want do do is. Click a Pin the rat shows up. Click the pin again and the rat disappears or do a window select. The mechanics of how this operation is done in Allegro is very tiresome to use in particular if you are dealing with many components that contain alot of rats nest. I took a look at the skill api and doing rat operations is included so I am thinking having a skill routine is plausible to handle this operation. Skill is not my forte though

If you have access to Specctra try it in that and you will see how easy & fluid rat control is, way way better than Allegro by along shot.

Thanks.

Just a little follow up on this, so I came up with a method to do what I wanted. The cool part about allegro is there are many ways to do things - Strokes to the rescue. What's interesting about allegro and nets is that when displaying the nets for "Diff Pairs" it treats the pins as two nets which is kind of add. Over on the Specctra side when one enables the net line or "Guides" as they are called in specctra both of the nets show up with one click on either pin if the net assignment is for a diff pair. That's kind of cool.

Thanks.

Hey excellon,

I was able to create strokes using commands in PCB editor but couldn't use them on design. Do you mind letting us know how to use strokes in PCB? By the way thanks for the solution. Had been waiting for this option for years.

I guess I'm partial to highlighting the interesting net but leaving other guides visible.  I use the multi-net routing function a lot to get close to the destination but have to go back and figure out if one net needs to go left or right of another net to minimize vias.   I think net highlight (which also affects the ratsnest) with shadow mode turned on to be fairly efficient.   But, then, we don't use FPGA's in our consumer-type designs.