Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

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Add Note Shape Form – Line

Shape specifies a shape you can add to your design. The Add Note Shape form expands and contracts depending on which Shape option you select.

Line Style specifies the type of line you want to add.

solid specifies a solid line. dashed specifies a dashed line.

Draw Mode specifies the line entry method.

draws a straight line in any angle between two points.

draws two line shapes. The first is horizontal; the second is vertical.

draws two line shapes. The first is vertical; the second is horizontal.

draws either a horizontal or vertical line segment first, then a 45-degree angle.

draws a 45-degree angle first, then either a horizontal or vertical line segment.

Lock Angle appears only when Draw Mode is set to .

any draws a wire using any angle.

45 restricts cursor movement to 45-degree angles from the starting point.

Line Width specifies the line width in user units.

narrow draws a line using the default setting of 0.0625 user units.

wide draws a wide-width line. When you select this option, you can edit the text field to change the default width of 0.0625 user units.

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Add Note Shape Form – Polygon

Shape specifies a shape you can add to your design to outline the note text. The Add Note

Shape form expands and contracts depending on which Shape option you select.

Line Style specifies the type of line you want to use to draw the polygon shape. narrow draws a line using the default setting of 0.0625 user units.

wide when enabled, lets you edit the default width of 0.0625 user units.

Draw Mode specifies the line entry method.

draws a straight line in any angle between two points.

begins an L90 shape with a horizontal line segment and alternates between horizontal and vertical.

begins an L90 shape with a vertical line segment and alternates between vertical and horizontal.

draws either a horizontal or vertical line segment first, then a 45-degree angle.

draws a 45-degree angle first, then either a horizontal or vertical line segment.

Lock Angle appears only when Draw Mode is set to . any draws a line using any angle.

45 restricts cursor movement to 45-degree angles from the starting point.

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Add Note Shape Form – Rectangle

Shape specifies a shape you can add to your design to outline the note text. The Add Note

Shape form expands and contracts depending on which Shape option you select.

Line Style specifies the type of line you want to use to draw the rectangle shape.

solid specifies a solid line.

dashed specifies a dashed line.

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Add Note Text Form

Note Text specifies the text for the note you want to add to your design.

Entering text

Click in the text box. The pointer becomes an I-beam and you can begin typing.

Adding new lines

Press Return to move the cursor to a new line.

Selecting text

Click once at the location where you want to start selecting text.

Click twice to select the word to the right of the cursor.

Click three times to select the entire line.

Click four times to select all the text in the text box.

Hold the left mouse button down and drag the cursor to select an area of text.

Pasting text

Select some text, point to the location in the text box, hold down the Control key, and click where you want to copy the selection, then click the middle mouse button to paste the text.

Deleting selected text

Control-h, Del, and Backspace delete selected text.

Deleting unselected text

Control-h or Backspace deletes one character to the left.

Del deletes one character to the right.

Meta-Backspace deletes one word to the left.

Meta-Del deletes one word to the right.

Deleting entire lines

Press Control-a to move the cursor to the beginning of the line, then press Control-k.

Press Control-e to move the cursor to the end of the line, then press Control-u.

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Read File copies in a file and displays the file contents in theNote Text field. This action overwrites any text you entered in the text box.

To read in the file, specify the path to the text file, then click onRead File. When the file contains characters that cannot be displayed, the system issues a warning and removes the characters before copying in the file.

The following options affect the appearance of the note text in the design but not in the Note Text field.

Font Height specifies the height of the note text in user units.

Font Style specifies the font the system uses to display text.

Justification specifies the position of the cursor with respect to the text.

Rotate turns the note text counterclockwise in 90-degree increments around the reference point.