Hiding parts on a board?

Question

Hi, I am trying to make a ULP that exports an image of a board with only certain parts visible. This is intended to be a parts-placement aid. Is there any way to temporarily hide certain parts?

autodeskguest · Accepted Answer

Il 01/03/2014 22:00, Chris MacDonald ha scritto:

Hi, I am trying to make a ULP that exports an image of a board with only
certain parts visible. This is intended to be a parts-placement aid. Is
there any way to temporarily hide certain parts?

I would suggest to try the "assembly variant" feature.

Marco

AnalogNotes · Answer

You might try the mirror command on the parts that you don't want to see, then stop displaying the back side of the board. If you write out the list of part names to a file, then you can read that file back in and mirror the parts again to bring them to the front of the board again. Or close the file without saving and reopen it again...

autodeskguest · Answer

Chris MacDonald wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a ULP that exports an image of a board with only certain parts visible. This is intended to be a parts-placement aid. Is there any way to temporarily hide certain parts? open the board file only (better yet a read-only copy), then you can delete the parts you don't need, export a bit map (or place the displayed parts) then undo the deletions (or reopen the board). I'd think about using an ULP and/or SCR to automate the process (exporting a bitmap for / displaying each value/package combination). -- Lorenz