Expert: Recent Improvements in Hierarchical Layout Inspection

The functionality of several features of Expert layout editor has been enhanced to deal with hierarchical layouts in more convenient ways.

1. Edit in Place

The Hierarchy>>EIP>>Direct Pick command allows you to pick an object for editing in place anywhere in cell hierarchy. To facilitate the choosing of the required object, preselection highlighting is used.

The hierarchy depth at which an object can be picked is naturally defined by the viewing depth (as defined by commands from the View>>Cell view submenu). If a primitive object (shape or text) is picked, then you will edit the cell that contains this object. If a cell instance/array is picked, then you will edit in place the cell of this instance.