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Show and zoom??

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It's really hard to find a component the way my system is setup. If I do

a "show R44" it will highlight it but the display isn't focused on the

part. I then have to zoom out to show the whole schematic and then I

can't see the highlighted part. I have to zoom in and then slowly pan

across using the two scroll bars until I happen upon the part.

 

Someone told me he thought there was a ulp or some other function that

would allow you to actually find a part quickly. I have spent 30 minutes

or so looking thru the postings here but didn't see this topic.

 

Any help appreciated. Rob

 

  • in reply to Former Member

    On 10/28/2010 2:15 PM, Warren Brayshaw wrote:

    "Rob"<rob@unpublished.com>  wrote in message

    news:iac0qe$asu$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    >> Warren, thank you for the info. When I run a ulp the program looks only

    >> at my own ulp directory (not in the eagle directories). So I put a copy

    >> in my directory and when I did "run find r1" I first get a message that

    >> it can't find ulpmessage.ulp. So I found that file in eagle, copied it

    >> in my ulp directory and then did "run find r1" again. This time it

    >> popped up a message that says it found the part but I have OK the

    >> message before it actually zooms in on the part. This is not very

    >> convenient. Do you have to go thru okaying this message or am I just not

    >> set up correctly? Thanks again, Rob

    >>

    >>

    >

    Rob

    I'm still on V4.16 so this may be a V5 issue as some of the relevant

    commands like SHOW behave slightly differently.

    Could a V5 user verify find.ulp does centre and zoom to the part and then

    present the dialog (which needs to be acknowledged)

     

    Warren

     

    >

    I don't know, but I'm on 4.16r2 and I have a confirm dialog as well.

     

  • in reply to Former Member

    I figured out how to get rid of the acknowledgment requirement. Just

    edit ulpmessage.ulp and dump the one line that pops up the window.

    Didn't have to do anything to exp-project-lbr.ulp.

     

    Again, thanks to all that have helped me out here.

     

    Regards, Rob