does altium have some kind of top-level circuit assosiation thing?

[coppercone2]

So I was looking at a post on the RF forum and I saw this

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/594d1b64-0c88-4f69-af0c-46b15f0468ac/dd4z9hv-74a9142f-d470-4b30-8f4e-779e9c9960d0.png/v1/fill/w_1280,h_834,q_80,strp/capture_by_bas126_dd4z9hv-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9ODM0IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvNTk0ZDFiNjQtMGM4OC00ZjY5LWFmMGMtNDZiMTVmMDQ2OGFjXC9kZDR6OWh2LTc0YTkxNDJmLWQ0NzAtNGIzMC04ZjRlLTc3OWU5Yzk5NjBkMC5wbmciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.pkqK6-uP30njf_TcsOa7_FvLvlywj-iBVGKO_4EQ9AQ

Does altium have something like that, where if you make a complicated circuit, you can go on another page, click the box, and it would highlight all parts associated with that subsection? Or even, stay on the same page, and expand the view so the parts show up where the rectangle was but leave the other rectangles in place (so its like your opening a box to look inside), along with the distortion of space associated with this box.

Like a fusion with microsoft VISIO. To keep the amount of distracting stuff on the screen down. And the ability to nest boxes too (i.e. you can say decided to 'hide' non signal path devices (i.e. decouple caps) until you press a "Power Plane Parts" box next to your op-amps that were revealed when you pressed the 'input protection filter' box.

[ajb]

Altium can do sheet symbols, where you place one sheet as a symbol on a higher level sheet.  Ports in the subsheet appear on the sheet symbol so you can connect signals from one subsheet to another subsheet by drawing wires (or buses or harnesses) between sheet symbols.  If you do it right your top level sheet becomes a block diagram of the system.

[T3sl4co1l]

As for highlighting, typically subsheets generate component classes, so you can simply query everything that's on that sheet, and there it is.

I'm not aware of any tool that shows a cutesy graphical distorted zoom something or other view.  You'll have to use your imagination to get that.

Tim

[coppercone2]

yea I kinda wanted it on the same sheet so it blows up and moves everything around, and you can adjust it while its blown up to kinda make it work