IC-Station-like strokes definition in Virtuoso

Hi,
I did my best to search on this newsgroups as well as online in
different places, about if i can create custom mouse strokes that're
used by MG IC Station..
I found in Virtuoso manual how to add cadence strokes, and added the
successfully, but they're pretty less than what was used in IC
station...
In IC station, there was a simple smart method to define a stroke, i
can explain it simply as follows:

* Assume a 3x3 grid numbered from 1 to 9 as shown in the simplified
figure below:
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| 1 | 2 | 3
|
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| 4 | 5 | 6
|
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| 7 | 8 | 9
|
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* Then to define certain strok, you assosiate it with grid numbers of
the path.. for example, if u want to define "S" path stroke, then you
write:
Stroke# 321456987
and so on..

Is there any similar thing like that in Cadence Virtuoso Layout??

Moreover, even for currently existing strokes, can them be used in
Virtuoso Schematic ??

Thank you for help,
Kind Regards,
Ahmad,

 

You're correct that strokes in Virtuoso are not as highly
evolved as those in ICStation. I've done a ICStation->Virtuoso
transition with a group that looooooooved their strokes,
that threatened mass insurrection if they couldn't get their
favorite strokes in Virtuoso.

I spent a lot of time trying to satisfy them, and could never
get the Virtuoso strokes to work as reliably as ICStation.
But those users are all (well mostly, anyway) happy Virtuoso
users. The key is bindkeys and infix mode. The combination
of those is fast and sure, eliminating a lot of wasted mouse
motion.

-Jay-

 

There's a tool called "sted" which is the Stroke Editor which allows you to
define the strokes and the SKILL function call that they will invoke.

Unfortunately (for reasons too painful to go into here) sted is not supported on
Linux - so you have to run it on one of the other supported platforms (Solaris,
HPUX, IBM AIX) to create the strokes. Once you've created the stroke file
though, you can use it on any platform.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Can it run on Virtual machines?
Another comment, why doesn't Cadence make it available as a SKILL code
to be loaded and save users time instead? Moreover, if someone else
did it, and can share it will be further helpful..

Best Regards,
Ahmad,