The Color Bar is available at all times to change active layer, layer
colors and visibility. Layer names are also presented for your reference,
and layer types are represented by the icon next to the layer number.
Following is a list of icons and the layer type they represent.
Top
Inner
Bottom
Plane
Silk Bottom
Silk Top
Mask Top
Mask Bottom
Paste Top
Paste Bottom
Border
NC (Drill/Mill)
Composite
Drawing
Insulator
Etch (Subtractive) Passive
Screen (Additive) Passive
External Netlist (can only
be set by VisualCAM after importing a netlist)
Other
If a layer contains item-level polarity, the Draw and Flash colors contain a diamond shape, as shown for layer 1 in the above illustration.
If you wish to change a layer name or type, use the Layer
table or Navigator. You can close the Color
Bar by clicking on the X in the upper-right corner. You can expand the
size of the bar to the entire height of the workspace by clicking the
up-arrow; then reduce its size by clicking the down-arrow. While it is
docked in the VisualCAM window, you can resize the height and width of
the bar by moving your cursor to one of its outer edges. When the cursor
changes to 
, click and hold the left mouse button while you
drag the edge to the desired size.
Visibility for individual layers, layer sets and composites is controlled by clicking in the check box next to the desired layer number. A check mark indicates visibility, in which state a layer can be edited; no check mark indicates the layer is not visible, and cannot be edited.
To turn all layers on or off, right-click in the Color Bar, and select either All On or All Off. When you select All Off, all layers except the active layer are turned off.
Double-clicking on a layer number makes the layer "active". You can also right-click on the desired layer in the Color Bar, and select Set Active from the shortcut menu. The active layer appears on top of the other layers in the workspace (this does not change the actual layer order).
The active layer can also be set using the Layer Bar.
You can control the color of flashes and draws for each
of your layers. To change one of the colors, click on it. The Color Selector
appears, and you can select your desired color from the available selection.
To change the color choice at a particular location in the Color Selector,
right-click on the desired color. This opens the standard Windows color
selector that allows you to define a color.
To dismiss the Color Selector without choosing a color, press the Esc key.
If you have a specific set of layer colors you would like to use for all your designs, you are provided with a file in the Macros folder called demo.mac, which includes a macro called SetLayerColors. Use the following steps to utilize this macro.
Open the demo.mac file the Macro Developer, and edit it to specify your desired colors. Save the file and return to the main VisualCAM window.
Select the Macro|Load command and load the demo.mac file.
Select the Macro|Run command, and run the SetLayerColors macro.
Tip: If you wish to run the SetLayerColors macro automatically when VisualCAM starts, rename it to OnStartup. To run it whenever you select the File|Open command, rename it to OnOpen.