At 07:22 PM 2/27/2002 +0000, Steve Wiseman wrote: >On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Mike Reagan wrote: > > > Yes you can select "no net" traces, vias and object gloabaly > >It doesn't seem to work, though... at best, I get all the features that >were on the same net, or maybe that are touching... Other "no net" >features aren't matched - I'm confused.
Here is what Mr. Reagan was talking about. Double-click on a no-net track that is, say, on the top layer. If you don't have a no-net, just put a piece of top layer track down, it will automatically be no-net unless it touches a real net. Press the Global button. Under Attributes to Match By, select "same." Under layer, you might want to select "same" as well. Click on the Selection box, then click on okay. All top layer no-net track will be selected. You could leave out the "top layer" match, but then all no-net track, including track on mechanical layers, etc., will be selected. If you object was to delete no-net track, you would not want that, so you would need to unselect it. Instead, selecting track one layer at a time is reasonably easy. The Query Manager has some problems, it appears, or else it might have been useful for selecting all no-net copper track. Right now, we can choose between All Primitives and All FREE Primitives in the Global match characteristics. I have two comments about this: (1) It would be useful to have "All Free Copper" as one of these match characteristics. (2) When we are editing a component, the default should be "all primitives" or a new choice : "component primitives." This would have saved me thousands of keystrokes if it had been there from the beginning. They got it right with the REFDES and COMMENT fields, when they are edited individually, but for some reason Protel did not apply the same logic to the component dialog. Instead the default for globally editing components is "all FREE primitives," which we *never* want. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
