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Changing Net Appearance

Feature Description

 
Net appearance can be altered in many different ways in order to improve the visual aspect of a design. Often, careful selection of net appearance can help convey more information about the design. The following appearance characteristics can be edited for each net (for descriptions of the different net appearance characteristics, refer to the discussions of the net Appearance Panel and Net Apperance Ideas):
 

How To Change Net Appearance

- With the net(s) (one or more)  selected use the Appearance tab on the Contest Panel to select how the net is to appear as shown below. This feature is very useful for setting up pipes & showing easily recognized Standard nets such as power and ground that will normally be stubbed.
 
 
Net appearance can easily be modified for a single net (or for a batch of nets) using the following steps.
 
1
Select the Nets whose appearance you wish to change.
2
Select the Appearance tab within the context panels (or the Net Batch Appearance tab if multiple nets are selected).
3
Make the desired changes on the Appearance panel.
(Note: when modifying appearance for a batch of selected nets, the Net Batch Appearance panel is nearly identical to the Appearance panel.)
 
SAMPLES
 
 
 
 
 
SETTINGS
 
 
Type
Color
Thickness
Border
routing
Pipe
Yellow
10
2
Stubs Only
Pipe
Fuchsia
4
none
Stubs Only
Wire
Black
1
1
Stubs Only
Pipe
Chartreuse
4
1
Stubs Only