User Guide

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

ously used value menu will appear. In this way a new value can be con

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.

DELETE SIGNALS erases all signals in the layout, provided there is no

consistentschematicopened.

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

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.

PINSWAP

Swap two signals connected to equivalent pads of a component, pro

videdthepinshavebeendefinedwiththesameswaplevel.

REPLACE

Replace a package with another package from any library. This is

permitted as long as you are working in a layout that is not connected to

a consistent schematic by Forward&Back Annotation. In that case you

must use CHANGE PACKAGE in order to change the package variant.

NAME

Givenamestocomponents,signals(polygonsaswell)orvias.

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