Placing a Bus ...................................................................................................5-5
Equi-Spacing Traces........................................................................................5-9
Deleting a Trace ..............................................................................................5-9
Placing Copper Areas ......................................................................................5-10
Placing Powerplanes........................................................................................5-11
Splitting Copper...............................................................................................5-11
Deleting All Copper ........................................................................................5-12
Working with Vias.........................................................................................................5-15
Placing Vias.....................................................................................................5-15
Placing SMD Fanouts ....................................................................................................5-18
Working with Nets.........................................................................................................5-19
Using the Nets Tab ..........................................................................................5-19
Highlighting a Net ...........................................................................................5-28
Shielding Nets .................................................................................................5-28
Net Bridges......................................................................................................5-30
Swapping Pins and Gates...............................................................................................5-34
Swapping Pins .................................................................................................5-34
Swapping Gates ...............................................................................................5-35
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Adding a Net .....................................................................................5-21
Renaming a Net.................................................................................5-25
Deleting a Net ...................................................................................5-25
Setting Net Widths ............................................................................5-26
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