[PCB_FORUM] Re: Refreshing Dynamic shapes

  • From: "Weinberg, Richard (Richard)" <rweinberg@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:26:42 -0400

Try going into user preferences and set display|display_raster_ops to
slow.
 
This is a guess.
 
Richard Weinberg
Agere Systems
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Nope.  They are part of modules and are individual shields or
ground/power planes.
 
This is not a graphics problem, it is a problem with the dynamics.  I
assume that even turning off the shape fill graphics would not turn of
the shape regeneration :)
 
Thanks!
-- 
George Patrick
Tektronix, Inc.
Central Engineering, PCB Design Group
P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512
Beaverton, OR 97077-0001
Phone: 503-627-5272         Fax: 503-627-5587
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[mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gene Carman
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        Can you merge any of those shapes?  To speed up my designs I
typically work in "rough mode" and only turn on the full smooth mode
when nearly done.  I also turn off viewing shapes in setup> user pref >
shape > no shape fill.  I then only see the outlines..  
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                Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Refreshing Dynamic shapes
                Y'all:
                 
                I have a large board (15" square) with a bunch of
dynamic shapes on it (~400).  This board has disabled the shape
regeneration about three times without asking, usually after doing a lot
of line slides and such inside one or another of the shapes or
replacing/refreshing modules.  I can't find any reproducible reason for
this happening so I can't report it as a bug thru official channels to
Cadence.  
                 
                The biggest problem is that it is a BIG time hit waiting
for all the shapes to regenerate after changing from disabled back to
rough or smooth.  Has anyone found a way to reenable the dynamic shapes
without immediately regenerating them?  Or maybe being able to
regenerate in batch mode?  I wouldn't mind having to pick up and re
place a shape in the area I am working on, just SOMETHING to not have to
sit for an hour or two watching the stop light go from red to yellow and
back again :)
                 
                TIA!
                -- 
                George Patrick
                Tektronix, Inc.
                Central Engineering, PCB Design Group
                P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512
                Beaverton, OR 97077-0001
                Phone: 503-627-5272         Fax: 503-627-5587
                http://www.tektronix.com <http://www.tektronix.com/>
http://www.pcb-designer.com <http://www.pcb-designer.com/> 
                It's my opinion, not Tektronix' 
                 

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