On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:45:41 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 18:39 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>> The find dialog can be extremely helpful during component placement.
>> Its ability to do regexp searches is quite powerful, but hidden in the
>> manual. Please expose this feature better with a help button that
>> expands to a few examples. Would be handy for a quick look up of the
>> required syntax.
>
> Attributes -> Find specific text... This find dialog?
I was taklking about the find dialog of pcb:
select - select_by_name - elements
> How do you use that during component placement?
I use it to select a group of elements known to be closely related. E.g
all these caps and resistors in the vicinity of an opamp. This is
essential when confronted with a few hundred assorted components.
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Kai-Martin Knaak
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