[PEDA] hidden fields (maybe)

2002-03-16 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
hello, i altered a pcb by deleting the part types by merely clicking on them on the pcb and spacing in the field under attributes. there are probably about 250 components. just this morning i added a couple resistors to the schematic and updated the pcb, and to my horror, all those part

Re: [PEDA] hidden fields (maybe)

2002-03-16 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
hello, i just noticed something odd. i thought i should experiment a bit and try and feel my way thru this problem, so i chose a capacitor on the schematic and checked the hidden fields in the attributes and hit ok and when i looked at the schematic it had a row of astericks below the chip.

Re: [PEDA] hidden fields (maybe)

2002-03-16 Thread Brian Sherer
It's done in PCB rather than Schematic. If you only want to hide the Part Types normally shown on the PCB Footprint, you can globally change them to hidden, by clicking on any component on the PCB to pullup the edit panel, select global, go to the Comment Tab, and check the Hidden box. This will

Re: [PEDA] hidden fields (maybe)

2002-03-16 Thread Steve Wiseman
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: i altered a pcb by deleting the part types by merely clicking on them on the pcb and spacing in the field under attributes. That's a very odd thing to do - are you just trying to stop them showing on your PCB? If so, then globally hiding

Re: [PEDA] Tango Schematic into Protel

2002-03-16 Thread Bob Wolfe
Jon, Thanks very much, a few people responded including Harry Selfridge and Abd ul-Rahman Lomax. Harry was able to send me PDF, Postscript, and HPGL files of the schematic which was very helpful and just what I needed. Abdul was trying to bring it into Protel which would be great too but I don't

Re: [PEDA] Wishlist - Layer visability control

2002-03-16 Thread Dwight Harm
This sounds great to me. -Original Message- From: Don Ingram Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:32 PM Item: Addition of menu/mouse button behaviour to Layer tabs on PCB module Technique: 1. Add layer Tabs to the PCB window according to the settings in the current Layer Dialog as