Another management function of OpenROAD includes the ability to incorporate new features or enhancements that have been made to a frame or field template into existing frames or fields. You can “upgrade” a frame or field by using the ApplyTemplate utility. This utility also works for those frames and fields that have been generated using template assistants.

The ApplyTemplate utility can be used to regenerate specialized changes to the user areas of a frame, or to incorporate the generic changes of the frame and field templates.