I'm currently in the middle of a largish project, involving several hundred elements and some 1,500 connections, still using a rather older version of PCB (20080202) -- so far, it served me well.
It so happens that on several occasions, I changed the footprint of several dozen components at once (e.g. from 0805 to 0603). When I do this in gschem and invoke gsch2pcb, the updated elements all end up in the upper left corner of PCB's main window -- more precisely: for the most part outside the visible and accessible part of this window. And this is where I stumble upon a bit of a hassle: I'd like to have those elements dispersed for easy picking, but that seems to be impossible: - "Disperse all elements" is no option, since I already placed and routed a lot of stuff that I really, really don't want to mess up. - "Disperse selected elements" doesn't work, because the elements can't be selected, as they lie mostly outside the main window. - Clicking and dragging results in dragging all the refdes text first; only when the last refdes text has been dragged from the corner, I can start dragging the actual elements. This means that I first have to reunite all those dragged-away refdes'es with their respective elements. - Switching off the silk layer (to avoid dragging the refdes text) means that I can't drag anything any more. I can't help but wonder if there's a better way to do this? Can I select the (new, updated) elements if they're mostly outside the main window? Or is there another way to avoid dragging the refdes text first and foremost? And would upgrading to a newer version of PCB fix this behaviour? Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this question has already been answered (and yes, I /did/ search the gEDA archives). Best regards, Richard Rasker _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
