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I am doing a schematic in Altium, and am having the following problems…any ideas, or a good demo video much appreciated?........
When I have drawn a net, which has a 90 degree bend in it, sometimes I wish to delete just one “straight” of the net, but in Altium I find I hit delete and it deletes the entire net when I only wanted to delete one “straight” of the net. This is easy to do in Eagle, but not in Altium.
Sometimes I want to move an entire section of the circuit to the right or left…..so I select it, then go EDIT->MOVE->SELECTION, and then I move it, but it always breaks off several of the nets, and so when I have moved the subcircuit, I then have to go round repairing all these broken nets…..This doesn’t happen in Eagle, Eagle always “knows” that you want to move a subcircuit and still keep all the nets intact.
When I want to move a component in a schematic I find that I have to repeatedly click and re-click a component before I have successfully “grabbed” it. Is there a way to “grab” it first time? In Eagle, you simply have the “axis” layer on (I can’t remember if “axis” is actually the correct name for it), and then you can see the little cross-hairs on the component, which are the places where one should “grab” the component when wanting to move it….How do you know where to ‘grab’ a component in an Altium schematic.
When drawing a schematic, I sometimes want to adjust say a 28 pin IC……perhaps I want to make all the pin names to a size 6 font instead of a size 10 font…….to do this I have to go through every pin one by one, and adjust all of the names. Is there a kind of “macro” facility where I can program it so that when I click the pin it automatically converts the pin name to a 6 font?
Sometimes I have drawn a schematic and then I want to adjust say an IC’s library symbol, and have the adjusted one on the schematic instead. At the moment I have to delete the library symbol from the schematic, then adjust the symbol in the library, then bring the newly adjusted symbol back into the schematic and reconnect it in. In Eagle you can just “update” a symbol from the library, and it updates it without you having to delete it…….how to do this in Altium?
In Eagle, you have a file which has all your favourite settings in, and you just load it (its like a workspace), and then all those settings apply……eg the schematic editor grid set to 0.1 inch etc etc….where is this file in Altium?
In Eagle you can put text on to a schematic , and that text can be multi-line text…how do you do this in Altium? In Altium I only seem to be able to get a single line of text.
I am doing a schematic in Altium, and am having the following problems…any ideas, or a good demo video much appreciated?........
When I have drawn a net, which has a 90 degree bend in it, sometimes I wish to delete just one “straight” of the net, but in Altium I find I hit delete and it deletes the entire net when I only wanted to delete one “straight” of the net. This is easy to do in Eagle, but not in Altium.
Sometimes I want to move an entire section of the circuit to the right or left…..so I select it, then go EDIT->MOVE->SELECTION, and then I move it, but it always breaks off several of the nets, and so when I have moved the subcircuit, I then have to go round repairing all these broken nets…..This doesn’t happen in Eagle, Eagle always “knows” that you want to move a subcircuit and still keep all the nets intact.
When I want to move a component in a schematic I find that I have to repeatedly click and re-click a component before I have successfully “grabbed” it. Is there a way to “grab” it first time? In Eagle, you simply have the “axis” layer on (I can’t remember if “axis” is actually the correct name for it), and then you can see the little cross-hairs on the component, which are the places where one should “grab” the component when wanting to move it….How do you know where to ‘grab’ a component in an Altium schematic.
When drawing a schematic, I sometimes want to adjust say a 28 pin IC……perhaps I want to make all the pin names to a size 6 font instead of a size 10 font…….to do this I have to go through every pin one by one, and adjust all of the names. Is there a kind of “macro” facility where I can program it so that when I click the pin it automatically converts the pin name to a 6 font?
Sometimes I have drawn a schematic and then I want to adjust say an IC’s library symbol, and have the adjusted one on the schematic instead. At the moment I have to delete the library symbol from the schematic, then adjust the symbol in the library, then bring the newly adjusted symbol back into the schematic and reconnect it in. In Eagle you can just “update” a symbol from the library, and it updates it without you having to delete it…….how to do this in Altium?
In Eagle, you have a file which has all your favourite settings in, and you just load it (its like a workspace), and then all those settings apply……eg the schematic editor grid set to 0.1 inch etc etc….where is this file in Altium?
In Eagle you can put text on to a schematic , and that text can be multi-line text…how do you do this in Altium? In Altium I only seem to be able to get a single line of text.