Re: Beginner's questions about Electric

[Steven Rubin]

At 01:06 PM 1/7/2009, you wrote:
> How can I change the technology of a cell? Up to now, I have edited
> its text file!

You can use the "Cell Properties" dialog to examine a cell's 
technology.  This does not change the actual components inside of the 
cell...it only changes a technology pointer that is associated with 
the cell.  If you want to convert a cell from one layout technology 
to another, use the "View" menu and convert to an alternate layout technology.

> Is it true that a cell can only exist inside a library? I can't seem
> to save a cell to the working directory.

This is true.  A library is written to disk as a single file, with 
all of its cells.  There are "project management" facilities in 
Electric that will break a library into single-cell libraries so that 
each cell is in its own disk file, but that file is still a library file.

> Are libraries all writable? I am struggling to stop corrupting one
> of the reference libraries copied from the web site.

Can you be more specific.  What steps are you taking and what is the result?

   -Steven Rubin