Interactive labels

On 02.11.2016 08:02, Markus Rudolf wrote:

It would be cool if there are labels referencing a different sheet if I

could right click them and have a "show target" function e.g. it jumps

to the referenced sheet roughly focusing the referenced signal.

 

I'm just in the review of a 12 sheet large design and it would really

make the cross-checking easier...

I have written this ULP toolbox that does something similar and other

very useful functions for multi schematic and large designs. (To

install, see bottom)

This may do what you are after:Right click a part in sch/brd, and select

locate in brd/sch from the context menu. It will switch focus between

brd/sch for a selected part.

Another useful function is the "navigate" that lists all connections for

a specific net, and allows you to goto any of them. (I'm not happy with

the list format atm, it looks a bit messy, so I may change it in a

future version). It also does some ERC, but don't trust it blindly.

Another cool feature I have added is the "group segment past/upto via"

feature, that can group a full same-layer net segment by right clicking

a wire of it, so you can easily change layer for it all. You have the

choice to group upto or past vias.

NOTE:This can also be done on buses, but unfortunately the context menu

can not execute on groups, so you have to execute it manually.

If you group at least one wire of each signal in a bus and type "run

MLutils groupsignal", it will group all (same layer) of it, so you can

easily change layer of the full bus.

There are some other useful functions too, like polygon:move, ripup and

viacount, layers:hide, display affected.

I hope cadsoft reads this, maybe they can include some of these

functions in a future version, and keep developing this context menu

feature so this can look and function even more nice. Right now (7.7.0),

even polygon functions pop up when selecting a wire, and there are

missing objects that I would like to get my hands on through context menus.

To install this ulp, type "run MLutils install" in the command line. To

remove i, "run MLutils remove".

On 02.11.2016 08:02, Markus Rudolf wrote:

It would be cool if there are labels referencing a different sheet if I

could right click them and have a "show target" function e.g. it jumps

to the referenced sheet roughly focusing the referenced signal.

 

I'm just in the review of a 12 sheet large design and it would really

make the cross-checking easier...

I have written this ULP toolbox that does something similar and other

very useful functions for multi schematic and large designs. (To

install, see bottom)

This may do what you are after:Right click a part in sch/brd, and select

locate in brd/sch from the context menu. It will switch focus between

brd/sch for a selected part.

Another useful function is the "navigate" that lists all connections for

a specific net, and allows you to goto any of them. (I'm not happy with

the list format atm, it looks a bit messy, so I may change it in a

future version). It also does some ERC, but don't trust it blindly.

Another cool feature I have added is the "group segment past/upto via"

feature, that can group a full same-layer net segment by right clicking

a wire of it, so you can easily change layer for it all. You have the

choice to group upto or past vias.

NOTE:This can also be done on buses, but unfortunately the context menu

can not execute on groups, so you have to execute it manually.

If you group at least one wire of each signal in a bus and type "run

MLutils groupsignal", it will group all (same layer) of it, so you can

easily change layer of the full bus.

There are some other useful functions too, like polygon:move, ripup and

viacount, layers:hide, display affected.

I hope cadsoft reads this, maybe they can include some of these

functions in a future version, and keep developing this context menu

feature so this can look and function even more nice. Right now (7.7.0),

even polygon functions pop up when selecting a wire, and there are

missing objects that I would like to get my hands on through context menus.

To install this ulp, type "run MLutils install" in the command line. To

remove i, "run MLutils remove".