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V8 Overlapping parts

autodeskguest

With Eagle V7 and below one could select a part and then use the mouse

or pop up menu to select the next overlapping part.

 

I am not seeing that option any longer? There is no Next on the menu for

example.

 

Glenn

 

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  • 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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  • in reply to rachaelp

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

  • in reply to shabaz

    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

     

  • in reply to autodeskguest

    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!

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  • in reply to autodeskguest

    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!

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