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Mike Warren
  
Australia
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Posted - 20 Jun 2013 : 00:31:56
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Is there an easy way to select all components? "Select All" selects everything.
What I find myself often wanting to do is modify a particular property of every component, such as turning on of off the display of component names on a PCB or packages on a schematic, but if anything other than a component is added to the selection the properties dialog is not available (obviously). This leaves me manually Ctrl-Clicking lots of components. |
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DavidM
  
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Jun 2013 : 08:36:11
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Mike,
you can use the Goto bar for this kind of selection. Display the bar, set the category to Components, then right-click in the listbox where the component names are shown. Choose 'Select All Find Items' and this should light up all your components in one easy step!
regards, David. |
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Mike Warren
  
Australia
124 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jun 2013 : 10:05:35
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Thanks David. That works perfectly. |
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DavidM
  
United Kingdom
458 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jun 2013 : 10:17:23
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You will find that the Goto bar is useful for all kinds of multiple-select situations, not just components. For example you can view Pad Styles, click on one of the styles in the list, then right-click and Select All Find Items and it will select all the items that use that pad style.
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Mike Warren
  
Australia
124 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jun 2013 : 12:57:24
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Sounds like it will be very useful. Thanks.
I'm sure there are many time saving features that I don't know about because I;m such an infrequent user of EPC. I had a good play around when I got my first version in 2004, but have only concentrated on the new features I actually wanted at each upgrade.
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