Re: Beginner's questions about Electric

[Steven Rubin]

At 11:08 AM 1/9/2009, you wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> > >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?
> This was connected with attempts to get a "naked" cell
> separate from a library. For example, one sequence is
> (using my own library pharosc.delib and technology mocmos2).
>
> File>Open Recent Library>/home/graham/electric/pharosc.delib
> View>Make Alternate Layout View>mocmos OK
> enter pharosc2 for new library name

The "Make Alternate Layout View" command does not create a new 
library...it creates a new cell in the current library.  This new 
cell was called "pharosc2" and is still in the "pharosc" 
library.  You then saved the library with two cells in it.

  -Steve