grouping permanent

ULP would work and be more flexible with dialogs

Martin Fürst idea is good and permanent grouping is a missing basic function. This function should at least have these specifications:

- a group could hold any elements: part, wire, via, polygon ...

- lock the relative position of all the elements of group;

- the group absolute position should be lockable / un-lockable (like parts)

- the group should be permanent (store in to the brd/sch file)  (@ Clem : I don't see how you manage to to this last point with ulp....)

Guillaume

I agree with your suggested specifications. I would also add to those:

- adding / removing any single element/object/component to/from a permanent group with a simple click: too many times I spent costly minutes in annoying selections with group polygon tool and/or hiding/showing layers to avoid useless or harmful selections.

- use the Group tool to lock / unLock more than a single element (I never figured out how to do this, if any similar function exists)

- improving the whole grouping system shifting it to a more friendly way: selection with left click, multiple selection with polygon (rectangle, guys, rectangle! CorelDraw did this in 1990!), add to/ remove from a group with shift+left click on the object.

Marginal note: I also posted some suggestions (perhaps not my best contribution to the Eagle world, but... hey, worth a try), but after three weeks I have received no reply, no comment, nothing. The suggestion newsgroup on CadSoft site looks unreachable (error 404). I think the big Eagle's users community could bring a huge amount of suggestions in order to transform Eagle in the best EDA software, but - I may be wrong - CadSoft seems to be deaf from that ear...

I agree with your suggested specifications. I would also add to those:

- adding / removing any single element/object/component to/from a permanent group with a simple click: too many times I spent costly minutes in annoying selections with group polygon tool and/or hiding/showing layers to avoid useless or harmful selections.

- use the Group tool to lock / unLock more than a single element (I never figured out how to do this, if any similar function exists)

- improving the whole grouping system shifting it to a more friendly way: selection with left click, multiple selection with polygon (rectangle, guys, rectangle! CorelDraw did this in 1990!), add to/ remove from a group with shift+left click on the object.

Marginal note: I also posted some suggestions (perhaps not my best contribution to the Eagle world, but... hey, worth a try), but after three weeks I have received no reply, no comment, nothing. The suggestion newsgroup on CadSoft site looks unreachable (error 404). I think the big Eagle's users community could bring a huge amount of suggestions in order to transform Eagle in the best EDA software, but - I may be wrong - CadSoft seems to be deaf from that ear...

Hi,

- adding / removing any single element/object/component to/from a permanent group with a simple click: too many times I spent costly minutes in annoying selections with group polygon tool and/or hiding/showing layers to avoid useless or harmful selections.

you're right, this would be great !