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Lock command disabled in freeware version ?

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Former Member over 11 years ago

I am evaluating the freeware version and the LOCK command is not working.  Is Eagle hiding the fact that it has disabled some functions in the freeware version ? The lock icon is selectable in the board editor on the left tool bar but clicking objects - any object - polygon, wire, pad, anything does nothing, it does not lock them. You can still move them. The same for group lock does not work at all.

According to the Freeware limitation description LOCK should work. anyone tried the LOCK command in the freeware version ???

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  • shabaz
    0 shabaz over 11 years ago

    I doubt it's disabled. I've done many dense boards with Eagle for years and never used the lock icon. I didn't know it was there. I doubt that what seems an obscure function would be disabled, because it wouldn't make any sense for a developer to waste time disabling what may be a little used feature for users, for a freeware version.

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  • autodeskguest
    0 autodeskguest over 11 years ago

    Jarvis Weiruiqwfeubay wrote on Fri, 04 July 2014 08:01

    The lock icon is selectable in the board editor on the left tool bar

    but clicking objects - any object - polygon, wire, pad, anything does

    nothing, it does not lock them.

     

     

    As per the HELP

    The LOCK command can be applied to parts in a board, and prevents them from

    being moved, rotated, or mirrored

     

    Those 'parts' are the 'elements'(footprints for devices) and only they can

    be locked right now. There have been requests for other objects, like those

    you mention, to be lockable

     

    HTH

    Warren

     

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    Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

     

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  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

    hey thanks for replying to the post even though you don't have an answer. My board is part custom RF shapes and polygons so selecting one without grabbing the other is a problem in eagle without the lock command working. There is nothing obscure about it, if only it worked. Does Eagle customer support read those forum ?

     

    Eagle support team could you answer on this non-working LOCK command issue ????

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  • ootbrobo
    0 ootbrobo over 11 years ago

    The issue is that the lock feature only locks the position of components not traces or polygons etc. This is true in all versions of EAGLE.  The layers torigins and borigins display the center of the components you place. When you lock a component you will see that the + turns into an x, showing you that is can no longer be moved.  FYI to unlock a component you can use the ctrl + shift + left mouse, when lock is selected.

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to ootbrobo

    Yeah i found that out a couple of hours ago myself but thanks for the answer. I see no reason why Eagle limited the lock command to components only. That's not good.

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  • autodeskguest
    0 autodeskguest over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    "Jarvis Weiruiqwfeubaygui"  skrev i nyhetsmeldingen:

    1011723212.41404434597639.JavaMail.jive@flmspu-csapp-02.premierfarnell.com

    ...

     

    hey thanks for replying to the post even though you don't have an

    answer. My board is part custom RF shapes and polygons so selecting one

    without grabbing the other is a problem in eagle without the lock

    command working. There is nothing obscure about it, if only it worked.

    Does Eagle customer support read those forum ?

     

    If you have RF shapes like antennas, why not make a library part for it?

     

     

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