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The Extraction View Button: Display Extraction Layers

When the Extraction View button in the Extract Menu is active, the display in the main window is based on features as known to the extraction system. Although similar to the normal display, there are important differences:

  1. Only the conducting layers are shown.
  2. The features from internally-flattened subcells are shown as part of the parent cell.
  3. The geometry shown represents the processing from the Conductor Exclude directive.
  4. The visible geometry includes ground-plane processing.

This viewing mode is compatible with most other commands, however when active, editing is prevented. Object and subcell selection works in the normal way, however only visible objects can be selected, which includes the ``phony'' objects created by the extraction system and not present in the actual geometry database.



Stephen R. Whiteley 2012-04-01