Result Viewer Tools

The Result Viewer workspace contains tools for navigation, selection or deselection, reviewing results, and accessing related applications. All actions available on the toolbar can also be accessed using a menu option. Some menu options have no toolbar equivalent. There are right-click options that do not display in the toolbars or the menus.

Tool

Explanation

Deselects all layers in the layer filter.

Selects all layers in the layer filter.

Removes all layer locks.

Zooms the view of the graphic area in enlarging all features.

Zooms the view of the graphic area out reducing all features.

Zooms the view of the graphic area to the rectangle drawn with this tool.

Zooms the view of the graphic area to home—to include the entire board.

Selects a feature. Pressing Shift, and clicking other features causes the selection to be cumulative.

Used to measure the distance between two features.

Opens the Snap dialog box to determine how certain features—line, pad, filled surface, arc, text—snap to positions on the grid or to other features, and whether the grid is displayed and in what form. See Setting Grid and Snap Options.

Pans the view of the graphic area left, right, up and down, respectively.

Navigates from one result to another either sequentially, to the first in the category, or to the last in the category. (Clicking the next arrow at the end of a category, moves the view to the first result of the next category.)

Sets the zoom mode:

Auto Zoom

Pan Only

No Zoom

Synchronize with the current EDA program. Displays the same area of the board in the EDA program, as the measurement displayed in the Result Viewer. You can examine the problematic areas and perform DFM actions to rectify critical violations.

Shows/hides the category description and typical measurement in Pane 3.

Flags a single result of a specific category to be reported. For information on reports, see Flagging Results and Creating a Results Report.

Flags all results of the selected node to be reported.

Filters results of a rectangular selection.

Clears the rectangular filter.

Changes measurement display from inches to millimeters, or vice versa.

File > Exit

Closes the application.

Tools > Component Options

Opens the Component Display Options dialog box for setting how components display.

Expand All

Collapse All

Right-click any action, entity, or property by which to displaying the results tree, and select one of these options to expand or collapse all results in the tree, not just those of the right-clicked node.

Toggle Feature Classification

You can view measurement results involving two, one or no features according to classification by the feature attribute Geometry or by their symbol name. Results are displayed by layer, with the first results being the most severe for that layer. Features having the feature attribute Geometry, containing the name of the padstack to which the feature belongs, are given preference. If the feature does not have the attribute Geometry, then its symbol name is used. If neither of these are found, the results display under None.

Right-click any category, and choose Toggle Feature Classification.

The results are sorted by layer, under padstack name, symbol name, or None. The histogram displays the results of the selected layer.

Displays results singly or simultaneously when you use the navigation tools to move from one measurement to the next, or from one category to another.

To view all results simultaneously, click the Show All tool.

In Inches or Millimeters

Click the Switch Units tool. The workspace dynamically updates all results and histograms.