Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Plotting Designs

The Plot Options form appears.

3.Set the options.

4.Click OK on the Plot Options and Submit Plot forms.

Plotting a Color Schematic in Black and White

To plot designs in black and white instead of in grayscale, do the following:

Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Plotting Designs

For postscript color plotters

In the .cdsplotinit file, set the type entry to

type=postscript1:\

Note: To change plotting back to grayscale, set the type entry to :type=postscript2:\ .

For inkjet pen plotters

The standard entry in the.cdsplotinit file denotes each color pen and its position as follows:

white#x:black#x:red#x:yellow#x:green#x:cyan#x:blue#x:magenta#x:\

In the above example, x denotes the index number of the pen holder.

A pen plotter maps colors to six or eight pens in its pen carousel and selects colors by an index number of the pen holder. The Cadence Plotting Services software supports eight colors for lines and stipple patterns. The index number is the location of the pen in the carousel.

To plot in black and white, determine the position of the black pen and specify that position for all the other pens, except white, in the .cdsplotinit file. The software then sends all the non-white color requests to the black pen for black-and-white plotting.

For example, if the position of the black pen is 5, specify the following in the .cdsplotinit

file:

white#0:black#5:red#5:yellow#5:green#5:cyan#5:blue#5:magenta#5:\

Changing the Background Color of a Schematic Window

To change the background color of the schematic window, do the following:

1.Open the .Xdefaults file in edit mode.

2.Change or add the option Opus.editorBackground from black to the color you desire. For example:

Opus.editorBackground: green

3. At the UNIX prompt, type

xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults

4. Restart your Cadence software.