Selecting Rulers, Shapes Or Instances

Rulers, shapes or instances can be selected by either clicking on the shape in "Select" mode or by dragging a selection rectangle with the left mouse button pressed. In this case, all shapes inside the selection rectangle will be selected.

Pressing the Shift key in addition to selecting shapes or instances will extend the current selection. Pressing Ctrl key will remove all selected shapes or instances from the selection.

Only such cells will be selected as instances, of which the bounding box is shown. With the check boxes of the "Edit" menu's "Select" menu, the kind of shapes that participate in the selection can be changed. In addition, selection of instances or rulers can be enabled or disabled.

The properties of the selected objects can be browsed with the "Properties" function in the "Edit" menu. A dialog appears that shows the properties of the first object selected. In case of a rectangle for example these are the coordinates of the corners. Additionally, the instantiation path of the object can be shown by pressing the "Instantiation" button. The dialog that shows up then will state the cell that contains the object (this is the lowest cell) and the cells in which these cell is instantiated up to the top cell. Similar "User properties" shows a list of properties attached to this object.