V8 Overlapping parts

I've just tested out and can confirm that I no longer see the "next" option

so if I have things which are close to each other and the wrong thing

selects I don't seem to be able to get to the next selection option.... Is

this an unforeseen consequence of the new selection mechanism? I'm sure

removal of this is unintentional....

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I think it must be unintentional too, the help file in v8 still states that the feature exists.

On 1/20/2017 6:55 AM, shabaz wrote:

I think it must be unintentional too, the help file in v8 still states that the feature exists.

 

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Hi Guys,

If you are using the new group selection mode, the cycle selection is

done by holding down alt and then left-clicking mutliple times to cycle

through the nearby items. The last one selected gets added to the group.

Let me know if that works for you.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Hi Jorge,

Ah, I see. I went to Options->Set->Misc and unchecked "Group command default on" and now the behaviour is close to the

older EAGLE versions (except Esc needs to be pressed twice to exit out of the group selection white wire).

Mabe as a future idea it could be possible to swap it around, so that the select works like before, unless Alt is pressed, in which case

it does the polygon group select thing, because although the polygon select is nice, it is more rare to want to do that.

Anyway, it is good that by unchecking I'm almost close to the original method.

I'll spend some time reading about the features, so that I'm better prepared. I just loaded an old design into v8, to check it would

load fine, and still need to experiment.

Thanks for investigating!

Jorge Garcia wrote on Fri, 20 January 2017 19:19

If you are using the new group selection mode, the cycle selection is

done by holding down alt and then left-clicking mutliple times to cycle

through the nearby items. The last one selected gets added to the group.

Hi Jorge,

Thanks for the advice, I've just tried it but unfortunately it's not

reliable for me. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. This is on my

MacBook. I've not tried on any other OS.

Best Regards,

Rachael

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On 1/20/2017 2:47 PM, Rachael wrote:

Jorge Garcia wrote on Fri, 20 January 2017 19:19

If you are using the new group selection mode, the cycle selection is

done by holding down alt and then left-clicking mutliple times to cycle

through the nearby items. The last one selected gets added to the group.

 

Hi Jorge,

 

Thanks for the advice, I've just tried it but unfortunately it's not

reliable for me. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. This is on my

MacBook. I've not tried on any other OS.

 

Best Regards,

 

Rachael

Hi Rachael,

Under the new group mode, the catch factor radius is much smaller so you

really have to be directly on top of the two intersecting objects for

the alt+left-click to work.

If you are using a trackpad it's very likely the gestures won't work.

Are you using a mouse?

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Hi Jorge,

I previously tried it on the MacBook Pro and I was using the trackpad. I have just loaded it up on my iMac which uses a proper mouse and it still doesn't work reliably for me. Unfortunately this makes selecting the right thing in an area with dense routing quite problematic. If I do as Shabaz suggested above and turn off the "Group command default on" setting then it's back to being usable with the right click scrolling through the selection options. In principal the new group select function is really cool and testing it out I liked it, but as it breaks other fundamental functionality for me when it is enabled it will unfortunately have to be turned off on my machines so I won't benefit from it.

Best Regards,

Rachael

On 1/21/2017 4:21 AM, rachaelp wrote:

Hi Jorge,

 

I previously tried it on the MacBook Pro and I was using the trackpad. I have just loaded it up on my iMac which uses a proper mouse and it still doesn't work reliably for me. Unfortunately this makes selecting the right thing in an area with dense routing quite problematic. If I do as Shabaz suggested above and turn off the "Group command default on" setting then it's back to being usable with the right click scrolling through the selection options. In principal the new group select function is really cool and testing it out I liked it, but as it breaks other fundamental functionality for me when it is enabled it will unfortunately have to be turned off on my machines so I won't benefit from it.

 

Best Regards,

 

Rachael

 

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Hi Rachael,

I hope you're doing well. This needs to be investigated further, when

you have a chance could you make a video showing me what you see. I'm up

to my neck in forums I need to answer.

Or if you want e-mail me directly. If this is real I want to see if I

can make the developers aware of it in time to get a fix in the next update.

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

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Hi Jorge,

I'll try and get a small video of the issue done this evening. I'll email a

link over to you.

Many thanks,

Rachael

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Hi Jorge,

I just tried this on my MacBook Pro and it's working fine on the track pad now..... The only thing is I did have EAGLE crash and quit itself while testing this out. I have tried to replicate the crash but as yet I can't get it to crash again. I will continue to see if I can replicate this issue. I'll also try on the iMac later and see if the original issue can be replicated for a video.

Best Regards,

Rachael