symbol editor: colored objects & logos

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how to change to color of labels, lines, shapes, ...
in the symbol editor? This should be possible, but I can't seem to
find how to do it.

Is there a simple way to import a company logo in the symbol editor
from JPEG, EPS or whatever other graphic format ?

Jos

 

In the Symbol View - ussually layers like "device" "pin" "wire" usw are
used.
to change their colors, look into the techdump of your tech-library, find
out the respective display package, and change the color of the
display package

Its unlikely, that their exist an easy method to import jpgs to the symbol
editor, because jgs are pixel oriented whereas symbols are object
oriented(lines,shapes ...)


rds

 

It's not just seach in this group for "logo" or "comany logo"
you'll get soultions enough.

Bernd

 

I have an example of a symbol containing lines in different colors.
This could not be achieved with the method you just discribed
(display.drf). So their should be another way....

Jos

 

This is probably because the symbol uses many different layers. I just meant
that there are ussually very few of them actually used in a symbol, but
using "special" layers a great amount of colors are available.
Probably you have to put them in with
dbCreateRect, as I cannot see a user-like method to put them in

 

yes, it does work.

try doing this:
open a layout window.
in LSW menu do 'Choose valid layers', then press 'all valid'
in LSW menu again, go to display resource editor.
change the colors of the following layers:
device drawing => this is the green lines that make up a symbol
pin drawing => this is the red square that make up symbol pins
annotate xxx => these are the labels (if i remember well)

note, these layers are used for all symbols, so changing their color changes
the visual aspect of all symbols.
if you just want custom colors for your company logo, then you'd better
define your own layers with your own colors, only for your logo.
still, you won't be able to manipulate these layers with the schematic/symbol editor,
so you can create your logo using the standard layers, then change the layers with
a skill script.

cheers,

stéphane

 

Simplest way (without resorting to changing layers in SKILL) is to
select the shape you want to change - and enter the function:

geQuerySelSet()

(this is an old property editor). There you can change the layer that
the shapes etc are drawn on to another layer - which can then have a
different fill pattern, line style, colours etc (as set in the display.drf for
the packet used by that layer).

geQuerySelSet() can be put on a bindkey for convenience, of course. Note
that it is fairly primitive - so don't expect it to be well behaved if you use
it with schematics - CDF is not necessarily handled properly (no callbacks
are called, if I remember rightly). It's a useful low level property/attribute
editor.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Beware that there is a limited number of colors that play well with dfII.

(but I know of one "program" that was written that pixelized a logo into
polygons.
.... ugly)

- G