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Improve the SHOW command part highlighting in the board editor

martonmiklosqdev

When populating boards by hand I usually use the SHOW command with the @ argument.

 

It works well with a single component:

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But there is an use case when I would like to highlight multiple parts (with the same value):

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In this case the EAGLE draws one big rectangle, but showing separate rectangles would make more sense like on this gimposhopped image.

 

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To not "break backward compatibility" I would recommend to implement this separate rectangle behavior only when each part name is suffixed with a @

Like SHOW R1 R2 R14 @ should show a single rectangle, while SHOW R1 @ R2 @ R14 @ should show them separately.

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  • On 25/04/2017 12:35 a.m., Miklos Marton wrote:

    When populating boards by hand I usually use the SHOW command with the @ argument.

     

    It works well with a single component:

     

     

    But there is an use case when I would like to highlight multiple parts (with the same value):

     

     

    In this case the EAGLE draws one big rectangle, but showing separate rectangles would make more sense like on this gimposhopped image.

     

     

     

    To not "break backward compatibility" I would recommend to implement this separate rectangle behavior only when each part name is suffixed with a @

    Like SHOW R1 R2 R14 @ should show a single rectangle, while SHOW R1 @ R2 @ R14 @ should show them separately.

     

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    In my opinion a whole bunch of rectangles are not the answer. What you

    need is high visibility of the location of the parts of interest,

    without clutter.

     

    Previously I have proposed previously that during 'show' the board view

    is greyed. It is the low light colours that are greyed. This is how

    Altium do it and where the idea came from.  Highlight colours remain as

    you have set them in your palette so the items you 'show' are very obvious.

     

    I'll attach an image which E14 users will need to go to eaglecentral to see.

    http://www.eaglecentral.ca

     

    In my world, a ulp toggles between the grey and normal palette.

    A second ulp, showvals_Eagle_7 downloadable form autodesk

    http://eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/download/1776

    locates the common value you wish to highlight.

    In the attached I keyed in the value 100nf to locate the 100nf capacitors.

     

     

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  • in reply to autodeskguest

    Thank you so much Warren for your ULP!

     

    I agree with you on the fact that the gray out would be a better (and less clutterish) approach to highlight parts.

     

    I hope this issue will get the Autodesk's attention because I think it would not be so hard to implement.

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