Deleted part name - How to recover it?

Guy Desbiens wrote on Fri, 03 July 2009 14:12

Hi, I have Eagle 4.16 and after I smashed a component, in the schematic,

I

accidentally deleted the part name.  How can I recover the name of the

part

to show it again on the schematic?

Hello Guy,

To do this you need to "unsmash" the part.  You hold down one of the

modifier keys (shift I think, but check "help smash" for more info) while

smashing to unsmash.  This will undo any smashing and or deleting of >NAME

and >VALUE.  You can then smash again and move things around.

Cheers,

James.

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Guy Desbiens wrote on Fri, 03 July 2009 14:12

Hi, I have Eagle 4.16 and after I smashed a component, in the schematic,

I

accidentally deleted the part name.  How can I recover the name of the

part

to show it again on the schematic?

Hello Guy,

To do this you need to "unsmash" the part.  You hold down one of the

modifier keys (shift I think, but check "help smash" for more info) while

smashing to unsmash.  This will undo any smashing and or deleting of >NAME

and >VALUE.  You can then smash again and move things around.

Cheers,

James.

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email:  james@eaglecentral.ca

web: http://www.eaglecentral.ca

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• Electronic Design Services

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Greetings power users,

As I was reading this post and looking at the Help|Smash information in

Eagle, I thought to myself, "How would I program the Shift+Left mouse click

in a Script?"

I recalled reading about this somewhere, and since I learn so much from

reading these forum posts, I thought I would offer what I found.

In the Eagle User Manual (page 89 for version 5.0) there is a discussion

about Right Mouse Click. Quoting from the manual, "The > character within

parenthesis represents a right mouse click. That way one can move a whole

group, for example:

MOVE (> 0 0) (10 0);

..moves the group 10 units in the x direction."

Following this is the Modifier: section where "S" represents the Shift

key.

This raises the question however, will the modifiers work if coordinates

are not part of the command? My experimentation says NO. I tried:

"SMASH J1" followed by a Shift-LeftClick of the mouse. The part unsmashed

(moved labels returned to default positions).

I tried "SMASH J1 (S);" and received the error "Invalid point: (S);"

I tried "SMASH J1 (S0 0);" with no positive or negative results.

"SMASH J1 (S@);" works IF the cursor is positioned over J1. If positioned

elsewhere, the command ignores the J1 reference and unsmashes the part

under the cursor.

So, power users, comments...?

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