User Guide

GROUP
Define a group which can then be moved, rotated, or copied (with CUT
and PASTE) to another drawing. After the icon has been clicked, a rec
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tangular group can be defined by holding down the left mouse button
and dragging the cursor to the diagonal corner of the rectangle. If you
want to define a group by a polygon, use the left mouse button to deter
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mine the corners of the polygon. Then click the right mouse button to
closethepolygon.
TobesurethatallelementsareselectedDISPLAYALLlayersbefore.
CHANGE
Change the attributes of an object, e.g. the width of a track or the size
of a text. If the Esc key is pressed after changing a property, the previ
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ously used value menu will appear. In this way a new value can be con
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venientlychosen.Seethehelppages.
CUT
Transfer the objects of a previously defined group into the paste buffer.
SeePASTEcommand.NotidenticaltotheWindowscutfunction.
PASTE
Insert objects from the paste buffer into the drawing. Restrictions: see
help.NotidenticaltotheWindowspastefunction.
DELETE
Deletevisibleobjects.
If a group has been defined, it can be deleted with the right
mouse
button.
The DELETE command deletes an entire polygon when clicking on a
polygonwirewiththeShiftkeypressed.
If objects cannot be deleted, the reason can lie with error polygons re
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lated to the DRC command. They can be deleted with the ERRORS
command (ERRORS CLEAR). If layer 23, tOrigins, or 24, bOrigins,is
notdisplayed,componentscannotbedeleted.
ADD
Add library parts to a drawing. It offers a convenient search function.
TheUSEcommanddetermineswhichlibrariesareavailable.
NAME
Givenamestocomponents,signals(polygonsaswell)orvias.
VALUE
Provide values for components. Integrated circuits normally get the IC
type(e.g.7400)astheirvalue.
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