Cadence hot keys

Our University just switched to the newer version of Cadence (we were
running a version from 2002), and suddenly my hot keys do not work.
Examples would be shift+z to zoom, or pressing f for full screen in
Virtuoso, no longer work. I looked at the list of bindkeys for both
versions, and they are the same - although I didn't think these were
bind keys, but just hot keys built into Cadence. I will admit, my
understanding of how exactly these hot keys work - whether they are
bindkeys or something else - is lacking to say the least.

Can someone PLEASE fill me in as to why my hot keys no longer work?
Any information, even if it just leads to an answer, is much
appreciated.

 

More likely the problem is that the site .cdsinit file from the old
installation didn't get copied into the the
<cds_install_dir>/tools/dfII/local directory. Have your cad manager
update that file.

 

Thanks you both for helping me/us with this problem. I copied the file
to my Cadence startup directory, and that fixed the problem. Again,
thanks so much.

 

Do you know how to set the mouse clicks option in the schematics?

for example, If I wish that the left cursor of the mouse will be for
draging/choosing and the right click will be for zoom ( the idea is to
set the mouse right and left clicks to different functions). How do I
do it?

Thanks,
Amnon

 

This is done with the bindkey settings. Take a look at the samples files
referenced in the previous postings - e.g.

<instdir>/tools/dfII/samples/local/schBindKeys.il

Regards,

Andrew.