How can I select components booth in schematic and layout at the same time?

Doesn't the 'show' button do exactly what the OP asks? With the sch and pcb editor windows both open (and in sync), click the 'show' mode button,

, then select the component you want highlighting in the schematic, it is also highlighted in the PCB.

actually I doesn't care about simultaneously showing a component on sch and layout but simultaneously selecting a component on booth sch and layout editors!

So this way I can easily move and distribute them along the layout.

That's odd...  Bear with the silly questions for just a second please, but what version of EAGLE are you running, and what kind of computer and OS do you have?

FWIW, I tested on a Windows 7 computer with EAGLE 6.5 and I can run the script from either schematic or board.  I'll test on my Vista box and Macbook when I get home tonight...

Tested on Macbook with EAGLE 5.12.0, worked fine.

Vista with 5.6 failed.  Clrgroup() was added in the next version...

wow, wow and wow

Its works like a charm on my Win7 (x64) + 6.4 Eagle!

After I select the components in the schematic, and run the script it's automatically select the parts in the layout, switching over the focus immediately. Thanks a lot Doug for sharing this!

Best Regards,

Zoltan

Zoltan Doczi wrote:

Thanks a lot Doug for sharing this!

Just to be sure ("credit where credit is due" as they say) I didn't write the script, Lorenz did.  I just cleaned it up slightly and posted it... 

Doug,

I'm using EAGLE 5.11.0, on an I-Mac, running OS-x 10.5.8, with two monitors.

When I select a group in Schematic, then run pickGrouped, a message pops up at the bottom of the layout window that says "No group defined!". So it seems like it's trying to work, just not quite getting there.

I'll load 5.11 on my Macbook this weekend and see what happens...

I have also tried it on my Acer laptop, Windows 7 Home, EAGLE 5.11.0 Standard. Same results.

If I select a group in Schematic, then run pickgrouped in schematic, it switches control to the layout editor with a message at the bottom of the screen "No group selected.".

If I do the same thing, but run pickgrouped from the layout editor, it pops up a small message window that says "Nothing grouped in schematic."

In both cases, I can still see the grouped items highlighted in the schematic. Maybe it's a difference between EAGLE 5.11 and 5.12? Or maybe there's a really simple step in the process that I'm not getting?

RayA wrote:

I have also tried it on my Acer laptop, Windows 7 Home, EAGLE 5.11.0

Standard. Same results.

If I select a group in Schematic, then run pickgrouped in schematic, it

switches control to the layout editor with a message at the bottom of

the screen "No group selected.".

If I do the same thing, but run pickgrouped from the layout editor, it

pops up a small message window that says "Nothing grouped in schematic."

In both cases, I can still see the grouped items highlighted in the

schematic. Maybe it's a difference between EAGLE 5.11 and 5.12? Or maybe

there's a really simple step in the process that I'm not getting?

the in/set/clrgroup functions have been introduced with V5.0

there have been various bugfixes in V5.11, V5.12 & V6.0 since.

I'm using 6.5.2 in the moment, so for me pickGrouped.ulp just does

what it's supposed to do 8-)

I remember though, when I cobbled together the first version(s) of

this ulp, that there were some problems.

I think to remember that the "No group selected" error could be

circumvented by creating an empty group in the board editor first.

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Lorenz

To Doug and Lorenz,

Thank you both for your help. I think this will be useful during every new design. This would be nice to have built in to a new version of EAGLE, so it's only a right-click away. (In case I ever get around to upgrading to the latest rev. ;-)

Lorenz... Your tip about creating an empty group in the board editor did the trick. It works on 5.11.0 now.

Ray

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