VXL change layer for adding paths and rectangles

Hi,

In VXL the option to stop VXL from asking you which layer to add a path
to when starting on a pin which has underlying pins can be shut off on
the add path menu. Is there a way to stop it for the add rectangle
command? It is not on the add rect menu.

The prompting for rectangles is new, can't remember if it was added in
5033 or 5141.

Thanks in Advance,
Tim

 

[Andrew Beckett]

On 9 Feb 2006 09:26:14 -0800, TimRoy1@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

In VXL the option to stop VXL from asking you which layer to add a path
to when starting on a pin which has underlying pins can be shut off on
the add path menu. Is there a way to stop it for the add rectangle
command? It is not on the add rect menu.

The prompting for rectangles is new, can't remember if it was added in
5033 or 5141.

Thanks in Advance,
Tim

For paths you can set the following:

envSetVal("layoutXL" "pathSwitchLayer" 'boolean nil)

For Create--Rectangle or Create--Polygon command a new cdsenv setting was
added in IC5141USR2 called shapeSwitchLayer.

With the shapeSwitchLayer option set to t, if you click on overlapping shapes
you will see a pop up asking which layer to use. If shapeSwitchLayer is
set to nil, the pop up will not appear and VXL will use the current LSW layer
to create the shape.

envSetVal("layoutXL" "shapeSwitchLayer" 'boolean nil)

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Thanks again Andrew,

Tim