User Guide

ArrangeDevices
Drag the various elements to the desired positions. You use the MOVE
command for this purpose. Devices can be clicked on directly, or ad
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dressedbyname.
If,forexample,youtype
MOVER14
onto the command line, the device named R14 will be attached to the
mousecursor,andcanbeplaced.
Precisepositioningresultsfrominputsuchas:
MOVER14(0.252.50)
R14’slocatingpointisnowlocatedatthesecoordinates.
Keep the Ctrl key pressed while selecting a component in order to let its
origin jump at the mouse cursor and move it onto the currently used
grid.
A group of devices can be transposed by combining the GROUP and
MOVE commands. Click on the GROUP icon and then draw a frame
around the desired elements, click MOVE, and then click within the
group with the right mouse button in order to select it. With a click of
theleftmousebuttonyoucanplacethegroupatthedesiredlocation.
ROTATE, or a click with the right mouse button while the MOVE
command is active turns a device through 90 degrees. This also applies
togroups.
In order to place a component in any angle you may specify the rotation
directly with the ADD command or later with ROTATE or MOVE in
theparametertoolbar.
ParametertoolbarforROTATE,MOVE,ADD,COPY,TEXT
Nexttothe Angle boxarethebuttonsforthe Spin and Mirror flag.
Entering
ROTATER45'IC1';
in the command line adds a rotation of 45° to the current position of
element IC1. Assumed you tried, for example, to rotate the element
with the ROTATE command and pressed mouse button, and you de
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cided that it is not possible to obtain the exact rotation angle this way
(becauseofatoocoarsegrid)typeinthecommandline:
ROTATE=R45'IC1';
The rotation of IC1 is now exactly 45°. The = sign stands for absolute
values.Theinitialpositiondoesnotmatter.
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