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

Any idea guys?

Thanks

Hi,

is this a good idea?

If I select a component in the schematic why should I want to have it selected in the layout as well. Assumed I already placed the object properly then I have to do this again? Or do I miss something here?

Regards,

Richard

This would be very useful during the manual component placement, when I try to select a bunch of componenets on the schematic which are connected to each other somehow (eg.: an LDO + its bypass caps + resistors + jumpers)

Thanks,

Zoltan

Zoltan Doczi wrote:

This would be very useful during the manual component placement, when

I try to select a bunch of componenets on the schematic which are

connected to each other somehow (eg.: an LDO + its bypass caps +

resistors + jumpers)

try to following ULP:

pickGrouped.ulp

#usage "%.1fmic %.1fmic)", u2mic(mx/gCnt),

u2mic(my/gCnt));

      if (project.schematic) cmd = "edit .brd;" + cmd;

      exit(cmd);

    }

}

if it does what you want, you can assign it to a keyboard shortcut

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Lorenz

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.

Daniel Wainwright wrote:

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.

yes, but if you click on the "switch brd/sch" button instead using Alt+Tab

(or having both windows next to each other) the highlighting disappears

Gruss, Matthias Dingeldein

--

Guillotinen sind nicht reziprok, aber das macht nix,

die werden eh nur fuer die Hinrichtung verwendet

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.

This does seem like a useful ULP. Can someone upload it to the ULP files section? I haven't been able to copy the text version in a way that doesn't just provide an error when I run it in EAGLE. I have tried copying in "plain text" format in Textedit, Word, and Open Office. Apparently they all stick enough formatting into the file to mess it up.

Thanks,

It's also in the thread "Two scripts to help layout a board from a multi-page schematic..." and I asked Lorenz if he had thought about uploading it.  It does take a couple days to do that because you have to create an account and they approve any uploads before they appear.  I'll try to insert the script again here:

#usage "<b>pick-up parts in the board editor that are grouped in the schematic</b>\n"

      "<p>"

      "group parts in the schematic, then run pickGrouped"

      "<p>"

      "<author>Author: lorenznl@yahoo.com</author>"

 

// THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED

 

 

void main (void) {

string gInSch[], cmd;

int    gCnt, mx, my;

 

   // collect the grouped parts

   project.schematic(SCH) {

     SCH.parts(PAR) PAR.instances (INS) {

       if (PAR.device.package && ingroup(INS))

         gInSch[gCnt++] = PAR.name;

     }

   }

 

   if (gCnt == 0) {

     dlgMessageBox("Nothing grouped in schematic!");

     exit(1);

   }

 

   project.board (B) {

     clrgroup(B);

 

     // regroup the collected parts in the board

     //  and determine center of weight

     B.elements (E) {

       if (lookup(gInSch, E.name, 0) != "") {

         mx += E.x;

         my += E.y;

         setgroup(E);

       }

     }

 

     // pick up the grouped parts at center of weight

     sprintf(cmd, "move (>%.1fmic %.1fmic)", u2mic(mx/gCnt), u2mic(my/gCnt));

     if (project.schematic) cmd = "edit .brd;" + cmd;

     exit(cmd);

   }

}

Hopefully that worked.  If not, I'll post it on my web site an give a link...

Well, I copied and pasted from that last message and it was a bit wonky, so I uploaded it to my web page:

http://analognotes.com/eagle/pickgrouped.ulp

When/if Lorenz uploads it to the Cadsoft site, I'll point to that...