Problems
The Problems zone is the bottom of the left panel — the design-rule report, recomputed on every
committed edit and never a block on your work. Its title carries the running count,
Problems · ✕ 3 · ⚠ 1, with each half dropped when it is zero. A clean report leaves the zone
where it is and shows a dim no problems line rather than collapsing.
What each rule measures is Design rules; this page is the panel.
A row
✕ inlet feature 5 µm < 10 µm min · worst of 37 places · film
One line per 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 the statement they are.
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, which under a per-layer override is not the process you were last looking at.
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 — it is a finding about a whole layer, such as more depths in
it than the process forms in one go — and stays a readout.
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 rather than a subject, so it neither hovers nor selects anything; 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?. Nothing is capped and no count is hidden.
The unchecked-rule line
Under the list, a dim not checked yet: Min feature, Max aspect ratio names the rules that are
enabled on a process forming your design but have no checker. It qualifies the report rather
than belonging to it: those rules produce no rows, so without the line an empty report would read
as their passing. Hovering it says as much.
It appears on a clean report too — that is where it matters most — and disappears when no governing deck enables an unchecked rule. Which rules those are is Design rules.
The counts
The title’s ✕ N · ⚠ M counts places, not rows: a row standing for 500 of them adds 500. It
is the size of the problem, while the list under it stays the number of edits you would make.
The same pair sits at the right end of the status bar whenever the report is not clean, with the first few findings on its tooltip. Neither is a button — this zone is the list you click.
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 a clicked row lands.