Making a particular layer of a cellview(layout) invisible in toplevel

Hi,

In virtuoso layout editor I want to have some text in the corner of
every cell view (cell1) having details about the owner, notes etc.

I want this to be invisible if this cellview (cell1) is instantiated to
some other cellview ( cell2 ).

ie, If you open cell1 the text should be visible. But if you open cell2
inside which cell1 has been instantiated the text should not be visible.

Any help wd be much appreciated,

thnx.
suresh

 

I dont think it is possible directly.

My suggestions are,

1) Add the layout properties which are the required informations in
the cell1.

2) Write a skill wrapper, binded to key, which will create the temp.
hilite layers to show the information, with out opening the cell in
edit mode.


Or there could be some obviouse feautures with ROD objects?


rgds,
Rajes

 

Suresh,

If "cell1" and "cell2" are in 2 different libraries,
there are possibilities :

Let say you have a library of leaf-cells "mylib1" containing all
the cells comparables to the "cell1", then you have to make visible
the layer on which are the "tag" labels.

techDisplays(
;( LayerName Purpose Packet Vis Sel Con2ChgLy DrgEnbl Valid )
( myText drawing activeDrawing t t t t t )

The other library "mylib2" which contain the macro cells (cell2)
and the topcell of your design should have a techfile compiled where
the layer is made invisible by default, you can also make it outside
the LSW, with the "Valid" variable set to nil.

techDisplays(
;( LayerName Purpose Packet Vis Sel Con2ChgLy DrgEnbl Valid )
( myText drawing activeDrawing nil t t t nil )

The only drawback I see with this kind of workaround, is that you have
two user libraries which use the same technology, but with different
techfiles compiled.
Also this method is not suitable if you want to attach your libraries
to techlibs, otherwise you have to manage techlibs with different kind
of displays.

Hope this helps.
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