Problems
The Problems section is the bottom of the left panel — the design-rule report, recomputed on
every committed edit. Its title carries the running count, Problems · ✕ 3 · ⚠ 1, with each
half dropped when it is zero. A clean report shows a dim no problems line.
See Design rules for what each rule measures.
A row
✕ inlet feature 5 µm < 10 µm min · worst of 37 places · film
Each row is one finding: the severity glyph — ✕ an error, ⚠ a warning — then the child the finding is attributed to, then the finding itself. The line truncates in a narrow panel, and the tooltip carries it whole.
The finding reads as the measurement against the limit it failed, in µm and named for what was measured. The rules that have no threshold — a self-crossing outline, compartments that do not join up, material with nothing holding it — read as a plain statement instead.
worst of 37 places says how many places the row stands for, and that the measurement in front
of it is the worst of them. A row standing for a single place carries no such clause.
The last field is the process whose deck set that limit. See Design rules for which process that is.
Hovering a row lights its subject in the viewport and adds the markers for that row’s other
places; clicking selects the subject, so the inspector opens on what would fix it. A row reading
(layer) has no subject to select, so clicking it selects nothing. It is a finding about a
whole layer, such as more depths in it than the process forms in one go.
Rows run errors first, then by child name, with the layer-wide findings last.
Rule groups
Past ten rows the list folds into one collapsible group per rule, each header carrying its
glyph, the rule’s name and its total (✕ Min wall · 37) and starting closed. A header names a
rule and not a child, so hovering or clicking it does nothing; open it and the rows under it
behave as they always do.
Where one rule accounts for nearly the whole of a large report, its header adds a question —
1240 of 1250 places — check the process?.
The unchecked-rule line
Under the list, a dim not checked yet: Min aspect ratio names the rules that are enabled
on a process forming your design but have no checker. Those rules produce no rows, and the
tooltip on the line says so.
The line stays hidden unless you tick such a rule yourself, and it appears on a clean report too. See Design rules for which rules can raise it.
The counts
The title’s ✕ N · ⚠ M counts places, not rows: a row standing for 500 of them adds 500.
The same pair sits in the right half of the status bar whenever the report is not clean, inboard of the cursor coordinates, with the first few findings on its tooltip. Clicking one does nothing.
See also
- Design rules — what each rule measures, and which process governs a finding.
- Viewport & navigation — the outlined triangles a row’s places are drawn as.
- Fab processes window — where a rule deck’s thresholds are edited.
- Inspector — where the subject of a clicked row is edited.