During the design process, you may want to experiment with different “what if?” scenarios to determine the best implementation for your purposes. Capture provides a method to do this with label states. Label states allow you to define different states for a schematic page, perform edits, and then return to the defined state of the schematic before the editing occurred. Each schematic page can have its own set of label states. Further, each schematic page has two label states- Start and End-that are implicit. Label states are identified with a unique label consisting of one to five alphanumeric characters.
- Since Start and End are default label states for each schematic page, any label state that you define cannot use the identifiers Start or End as labels.
- Labels are not case-sensitive. STATEA and stateA are considered identical by Capture.
To set a label state:
- From the Edit menu, choose Label State, and then choose Set. The Set Label State dialog box appears.
- Specify a name for the label.
Note: Labels must be one to five characters long, and must be unique per schematic page. The labels Start and End are reserved and cannot be assigned.
- Click OK.
The state of the schematic is labeled.
To go to a label state:
- From the Edit menu, choose Label State, and then choose Goto. The Goto Label State dialog box appears.
- Specify the label of the state to which you want to return.
- Click OK.
Capture returns you to the labeled state of the schematic, removing any edits that occurred in the interim.
To delete a label state:
- From the Edit menu, choose Label State, and then choose Delete. The Delete Label State dialog box appears.
- Specify the label for the state that you want to delete.
- Click OK.
The label state is removed and you can no longer return to it with the Goto Label State dialog box.
You cannot delete the default Start and End label states.