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Hi, does anyone know how to move subcells in magic together ? For eg. I selected these three resistor sub cells together and want to move them but unable to do so at the top level using 'm' or 'move'. m works fine for one sub cell at a time but not when multiple sub cells are selected together. For eg with the selection if I did 'm' the box just moves to the cursor position but the cells are not moved.

I expect that you used an "area selection" for the multiple cells, so magic selected the drawn layers, not the subcells, and then refused to move the layers because they're not in the top level (edit) cell.

Instead, use `i` to select a subcell and `I` (shift-`i`) to select additional cells.  The command `select area subcell` will also work to select all subcells (not the layers inside) at once.

Thanks <@U016EM8L91B>. Using `i` for selecting subcell and `I` worked. I need to select each additional subcell by moving the mouse pointer and `Shift+i` .

However I'm not quite sure how to use the `select area subcell` . I used the box tool and then selected a box area that had multiple subcells. Then I used the command `select area subcell` but it didn't select all subcells within the box or in the area and therefore subsequent command to move has no impact.  Could you kindly elaborate on to use this command if possible ?

My suspicion is that this command option might have become broken after a recent change to the `select` command code.  I'll need to investigate.  Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

FYI, the `select area subcell` only works if subcells are unexpanded, so first you need to do "`unexpand`" followed by `select area subcell`.  This is an unnecessary restriction, so I have now corrected it in the source code, making it operate as the documentation implies (no longer requires hiding cell contents before selecting a subcell).  This change has _some_ impact on command usage, such as doing something like `select area m1,subcell` followed by `copy`, which would then copy both the instance _and_ some of its contents.  Since previously that would not have worked as expected without unexpanding the subcells first, then the change should not impact existing scripts.