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Global Saving of Added Subclasses to Visibility Pane?

GilMay2

Allegro v17.4

Is there a way to save the subclasses added to the visibility pane such that they show-up on all board files?

Right now, they only show-up on the specific board that I added them to.

I added them by right-mouse-clicking over the larger square, and selecting "Add to visibility".

Thank you.

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    From 17.4, you can add the layers you want to be displayed in the Visibility pane to the CVCustomVisPaneLayers.xml file. The default CVCustomVisPaneLayers.xml file is located at <CDSROOT>/share/pcb/examples. Copy and place this file in your local pcbenv directory. 

    Follow the below steps:

    1. From the pcbenv folder, open the CVCustomVisPaneLayers.xml file in a text editor.
    1. Add the necessary Class/Subclass layers into the file and save it.

    1. Invoke the tool and set the display_custom_vis_layers variable to either Global or Both in the User Preferences Editor (Setup > User Preferences > Display > Visual). Close and reopen the tool.

    1. Now, when you invoke the tool and open any design, you will see the user-defined Class/Subclass layers under the user selected section in the Visibility pane.

    There are three options for the display_custom_vis_layers variable:

    • User: Loads only the configured layers of the active design

    ​The Visibility pane displays only the Add to visibility layer set in the current design profile.

    • Global: Loads layers set in all CVCustomVisPaneLayers.xml files in your local pcbenv, ALLEGRO_SITE pcbenv, and global env folders
    • Both: Loads both the active design and all global layers found in all CVCustomVisPaneLayers.xml files

    Note: If a class/subclass layer defined in the CVCustomVisPaneLayers.xml file does not exist in a design, it will not be shown in the Visibility pane when the design is opened. Only the class/subclass layers present in that design matching with ones defined in the CVCustomVisPaneLayers.xml file will be shown in the Visibility pane.

    This was taken from an article in the Cadence Online Support website. Link to the original article here:

    Article (20502954) Title: How to preserve/reuse user-selected Class/Subclass in Visibility pane
    URL: https://support.cadence.com/apex/ArticleAttachmentPortal?id=a1O3w000009TF5DEAW

     

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