Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Editing Properties

The Edit Object Properties form appears.

Edit Object Properties

3.Click Add, Delete, or Modify.

4.Edit the form that appears.

5.Click OK on both forms.

Editing Label Properties

To edit label properties and label parameters and values, do the following:

1.Click a label in your design whose properties you want to edit.

2.Choose Edit – Properties – Objects.

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Editing Properties

The Edit Object Properties form appears.

Edit Object Properties

3.Change the Height, Font, or Justification fields.

4.Click OK.

Resetting Invisible Labels

If you turned off label display on the Edit Object Properties form while editing a label, you can do the following:

■Manually reset (make visible) individual labels

■Automatically reset all invisible labels

To manually reset individual labels, do the following:

1.Choose Edit – Select – Filter.

Make sure the labels are selectable.

2.Choose Edit – Reset Invisible Labels.

All the invisible labels appear as blinking highlighted objects.

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Editing Properties

All the visible labels appear as nonbinding highlighted objects.

3.Click each of the blinking highlighted labels that you want to make visible.

When you select a label, it remains highlighted but stops blinking, indicating it will remain visible when you quit the command.

When you click again on a label to deselect it, it starts blinking again, indicating it will remain invisible when you quit the command.

4.Press the Esc key to end the command.

The selected labels remain visible in your design.

To automatically reset all invisible labels, do the following:

1.Choose Edit – Reset Invisible Labels.

All invisible labels appear as blinking highlighted objects.

2.Press the F3 key.

The Reset Invisible Labels form appears.

Reset Invisible Labels

1.Turn on visible.

All the invisible labels remain highlighted but stop blinking.

2.Click Hide to close the Reset Invisible Labels form.

3.Press the Esc key to end the command.

The selected labels remain visible in your design, regardless of the Selection Filter settings.

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Editing Properties

Editing netSet Properties

Refer to Adding Net Expression Labels to Create an Inherited Connection on page 167 and Adding netSet Properties to Create an Inherited Connection on page 172 for information about the netSet property.

Editing Note Text Properties

To edit text of a note after you add it to your design, do the following:

1.Select the note text in your design.

2.Choose Edit – Properties – Objects.

The Edit Object Properties form appears and displays text in the Note Text field.

Edit Object Properties

You can type a note to document your design. You can also read in (or import)

an ASCII file from disk.

3.Make your changes using the keystrokes on the following table.

4.Click OK.

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Editing Properties