How To Change Background Colour In Cadence Virtuoso

Cadence schematic software defaults to a blackness background, light bluish wires, and light dark-green components that, when printed, are both a waste of ink, and aesthetically difficult to interpret. This tutorial volition comprehend how to apace and easily modify the default color and thickness of wires and components in Cadency schematics, and how to print or snip schematics with a white background.

Here, we find a simple voltage divider schematic, generated with Cadence schematic software (spectre). If we needed to print this out correct at present for an consignment or for whatsoever other purpose, copious amounts of black ink would be wasted on the groundwork, and the lighter colors of the components and wires would not show upward on a black or a white groundwork very well. Thankfully, there is a solution.

We will first discuss how to modify the colour and thickness of the components and wires.

Bring upwards the CIW (Command Interpreter Window) and click on Tools � Display Resource Manager

A small window will pop upwardly called the Brandish Resources Tool Box window. Click Edit.

The Display Resources Editor window will pop upwardly, shown below. Exist sure to switch the Layers selector to All.

Nosotros can now navigate through the diverse items that Cadence has default colors for. We are specifically interested in �device drawing1� (for editing the color of schematic components), �wire drawing�, and �wire label�. The process for irresolute the color and thickness for each individual item is always the same, so we volition simply go through the process for the colour and thickness of the wire. The starting time matter we volition practise is select �wire drawing� in the coil bill of fare on the left.

Nosotros can run across that the defaults for the fill color and outline color of the wire are calorie-free blue. Nosotros can too see that the default thickness is not very thick at all.

We can now select a new wire colour and thickness. In the tutorial, we volition select night blueish, and medium line thickness (mline). Exist sure to hit Apply.

Once you have hit Apply, go to File � Salve.

When the Save Brandish Resource File window pops upward, under Files, click display.drf.

Click OK.

A pop upwards volition ask you if you would like to overwrite the brandish file. Click Yep.

Be certain to shut and reopen whatever schematic you were working on in guild to activate the modify in color and thickness.

Repeat this process for �wire characterization� and �device drawing1� to thicken and change colors of components and wire names.

The components have been thickened and changed to a pink colour.

The new schematic volition look like the following.

At present that the schematic is darker and thicker, nosotros tin be sure information technology will show up better on a white background.

This part of the tutorial volition cover how to pull up the schematic with a white groundwork for printing purposes.

We starting time need to utilize the Zoom control (Z) to ingather the schematic view to exactly what nosotros want our snip to wait like.

In the photo above, this is already done.

Next, become to File � Consign Image, and the Export Image window will pop upwardly, seen below.

Select Background and modify the background color to white. Click OK, circled beneath.

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Adjacent, we need to proper noun the file, seen below (you lot do not need to add .png to the file name, the software volition do that on its own as long as you lot set up the file type to PNG). After naming the file, select Save to File.

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At this bespeak, nosotros are pretty much done. We demand to merely navigate back to the MobaXTerm to find the file.

Open the MobaXTerm and navigate to the CMOSedu directory (you may have to striking the green refresh push button in order for the file to popular upwards in the CMOSedu directory). Down beneath your libraries yous volition notice your .png file, which is now an image of the schematic with a white background, that tin can exist snipped, or copied and pasted into a file to be printed.

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