Schematic: How to paste multiple times? Group copy procedure?

On 17/07/2015 6:10 p.m., Graham Wideman wrote:

Two questions regarding copy and paste. I have looked at the manual, and

googled, but haven't come up with an answer.

 

1. Ordinary and Group copy-paste. I can get both of these to work to

paste once, but in both cases I have not discovered how to paste the

copied item(s) multiple times. I mean:

• Select and copy the item(s) (single or group)

• Move the mouse somewhere and paste

• Move the mouse somewhere else and paste.

• ...

How do you do that? For me, what happens after left-clicking to perform

the first paste is that Schematic seems to forget that there's anything

to paste. I suspect there's some key/mouse button combo that does what I

want, but what is it?

 

2. Having said the above, I feel I don't fully understand even the

"Group copy, paste once" procedure: My current procedure is

• Press the Copy tool button

• Press the Group tool button

• Drag a rectangle around the objects to be copied

• At this point I would have thought the operation would be ready, but

it isn't. The status bar unhelpfully suggests "Left-click to select

object to copy (why? I've selected a group, and it's highlighted.)

Instead I have to additionally right-mouse on something in the selected

group, and from the popup menu select Copy:Group.* NOW the mouse drags

around a copy of the group, and I can place it with left-click.

• So why do I need to tell Schematic twice that I'm performing a Group

Copy? I feel I must be missing something

 

 

Please illuminate me!  Thanks!

 

Eagle use is akin to reverse Polish notation. You select the action then

apply it to the object.

To copy a group there must be one set up so your order should be

Select Group tool

Make group

Select Copy tool

Select the item to copy, which is the group in this case.

..and wow a copy is stuck to the mouse. Quick, place it where I want it.

Hmmmm, I only got one copy, bother. "What's that?" the manual and help

say 'copy' copies to the clip board. How can I get it from there?

Click the Paste tool

Ahh! there we go, lots of copies.

You can select the copy before the group and Eagle nicely  keeps it

selected after the group.

HTH

Warren

p.s. My torch is not bright enough to illuminate you from here

Thanks for your answer Warren. A couple of followup points.

1. Following your Group Copy procedure:

> ...

> Click the Paste tool

> Ahh! there we go, lots of copies.

(Side issue: Turns out that the Paste button, which indeed I had not found, is the one whose icon has a large yellow circle next to a small black circle. What mnemonic is that?)

Actually, I get only one copy (that is, one paste), and then the paste tool button (and paste mode) deselects. I can reselect the paste button, and that's good for one more paste. And so on. That's better than nothing, but is there a mode where I can just keep pasting more copies without having to reselect the paste button each time, just like when dropping components using the Add tool?

2. I get the action you describe only after Group Copy, and not after normal (single component) Copy. Am I missing something, or does regular copy follow a paradigm so different that it does not retain the copied object after the first paste?

> You can select the copy before the group and Eagle nicely keeps it selected after the group.

Is this a benefit that I'm not understanding?

-- Graham

On 17/07/2015 8:32 p.m., Graham Wideman wrote:

Thanks for your answer Warren. A couple of followup points.

 

1. Following your Group Copy procedure:

...

Click the Paste tool

Ahh! there we go, lots of copies.

 

(Side issue: Turns out that the Paste button, which indeed I had not

found, is the one whose icon has a large yellow circle next to a small

black circle. What mnemonic is that?)

 

Seems you are a new user. The old hands turn off the new 'load of crap'

icons and revert to the previous icon set.

Control Panel > Options > User Interface... > Classic Icon style

HTH

Warren

warrenbrayshaw wrote:

On 17/07/2015 8:32 p.m., Graham Wideman wrote:

(Side issue: Turns out that the Paste button, which indeed I had not

found, is the one whose icon has a large yellow circle next to a small

black circle. What mnemonic is that?)

 

Seems you are a new user. The old hands turn off the new 'load of crap'

icons and revert to the previous icon set.

 

Control Panel > Options > User Interface... > Classic Icon style

and most likely revert the right-click action from 'contexr menu' back

to 'group action'

   set Option.ToggleCtrlForGroupSelectionAndContextMenu 1

--

Lorenz

@Warren -- good to know. Though the classic "Paste" icon isn't much more comprehensible.

@ Lorenz: OK, interesting.