On 10:47 AM 31/05/2001 +0200, Martin Panhuis said:
>I want to printout the comment of a component in pcb. Standard in the
>comment of a component, there is the parttype of the component in the
>schematic. If I want for example partfield 1 information of the component
>place in the comment field of component in pcb, how can i change that?
>
>
>Regards,
>Martin Panhuis
There is no automatic method of making PartField1 end up in the Comment
field of a PCB. As you say, the Part Type field of the Schematic component
goes into the Comment field of the PCB when ever you import a new component
using the netlist and macros are created to keep synchronise the comment
and part type fields when you use the Synchroniser (Update PCB... and
Update Sch...).
It would be possible to write a server to allow any field that got the
Partfield1 (or whatever) and put it into the PartType field. A macro won't
do this as macros cannot get access to all the details of a component. It
would even be possible (I suspect to crosslink into the Sch from the PCB
and update the comments directly from the Sch without affecting the Sch
Part Types.
Possible, but not likely to happen I suspect.
(A few times recently there has been requests for this sort of
capability. I think what would be useful would be a server that exposed
the attributes of a Sch symbol, and another for PCB components, in a form
that macros could use. Then a much wider group of people could make useful
macros and add-ons. I might think about this at some stage. Servers require
Delphi and significant time and investment in learning the
not-so-well-documented SDK, macros require nothing more than a look at the
macro language and some knowledge of programming.)
Ian Wilson
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