Crossprobing - selecting whole schematic page.

 JPeter,

You can do something very similar to what you want, if you create your design using hierarchical blocks.  Imbedd your schematic into a hierarchical block, then when you select the block, all the parts in the schematic will highlight and move as a group.

Question for you, i can seem to crossprobe in reverse as easy, select a part in layout and zoom to the schematic page.  the only whay I can make this work is select a function in the pcb like chage color, then select the symbol and then the schematic will zoom to the part.

How do you do this with out selecting a function?  Even show element, select symbol will not zoom to the part in schematic.

I would like to see some dicussion, tech notes or point me to the right places in the manuals that cover crossprobing.

Randy

Crossprobing never seems to work the same way twice. I found that if highlight is selected in layout, Cadence will zoom in on the schematic part.

Crossprobing works with the highlight/dehighlight tool. If you select a part in the schematic it will highlight the part in Allegro (it only works if there is no active command). If you highlight a part in Allegro it selects the part in the schematic. I haven't found a way to have it stick to the mouse as in the move function. It would be nice if it did work that way.

Steve is correct that if the Placement window is open (Place > Manually) you can click on schematic parts to pull them from the place queue and attach the part to the cursor in PCB Editor 16.0+. Unfortunately, the OP said he is using 15.7 and I don't believe you could do that before 16.0 (been too long and don't have it installed anymore to check).

In these cases, I have used the ROOM property. By attaching a "ROOM = DSP" or "ROOM = DDR3"(without quotes) property to schematic parts, those parts can be placed all at once on the PCB. By using a ROOM property you can subdivide hierarchical blocks even further, should you wish. With 16.2 placing a property on multiple parts is much easier, again unfortuantely for the OP.

Crossprobing is hopelessly broken as far as I can tell. I have submitted many SRs hoping to get what I believe is common-sense crossprobing (backed up by the crossprobing of other ECAD programs I've used). Hopefully Cadence will address the myriad of crossprobe shortcomings in the future.