Composer grid dots

[Mike Russell]

Hi All,

I can not see the small dots that composer uses for the grid. Even
if I zoom in the dots are hard to see. I have tried changing the
background color and this helps some.

Is the display of the grid dots customizable by skill commands or
display.drf?

I would like a bold dot, or larger dot used as a grid in Composer.

 

[Jay Lessert]

mjruss@magnaspeed.net (Mike Russell) wrote in message news:<860dbd30.0308070859.122301ff@posting.google.com>...

Hi All,

I can not see the small dots that composer uses for the grid. Even
if I zoom in the dots are hard to see. I have tried changing the
background color and this helps some.

If changing the background color helped, chances are somebody
*already* mucked around with the defaults, so you can "thank"
them. The default-default background color, determined by:

dfII/etc/cdsDefTechLib
share/cdssetup/dfII/default.drf

is (0 0 0) black, and the default schematic grid is light
grey ("slate", (140 140 166)).

Now, dot-grid on schematics with this combo *is* a little hard
to see, have you tried line grid? I dislike it, but I know
designers that love it.

Is the display of the grid dots customizable by skill commands or
display.drf?

Yes, layers (grid drawing) and (grid drawing1), with packet
names set in the tech file (default grid and grid1).

I would like a bold dot, or larger dot used as a grid in Composer.

That, I think, you cannot get. You can change the color, and you can
have lines instead of dots.

-Jay-