How to Unlock components from the command line (or script).

Hi Chuck,

You could use ULP and write an unlock function to retrieve the X and Y coordinates of each refdes passed as a parameter and then exit with LOCK (S X Y) for each one but I don't know of an existing command.

Best Regards,

Rachael

Hi Chuck,

I expect you've got this sorted now anyway but I've added another ULP to my library to create an unlock command. The usage is:

RUN unlock LED1 LED2 LED3

You can find the detail here if you would like it: EAGLE ULP Utilities Library

There is a link to the GIT repository containing my library near the top, the usage instructions for all my released library utilities are documented on that page.

Best Regards,

Rachael

rachaelp wrote on Tue, 04 July 2017 09:24

Hi Chuck,

 

I expect you've got this sorted now anyway but I've added another ULP

to my library to create an unlock command.

 

Snip.....

Ugggh, the Element14 -> NNTP bridge really mangled that one very badly,

sorry about that....

You can find the documentation for my EAGLE ULP library here:

https://www.element14.com/community/people/rachaelp/blog/2017/03/03/eagle-ulp-utilities-library

And the GIT repository is here:

https://gitlab.com/rachaelp/eagle-utils

Best Regards,

Rachael

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There is simple way to unlock components. Select component > Right click and go to properties. Uncheck lock. That is all.

shekharkarmarkar  wrote:

 

There is simple way to unlock components. Select component > Right click and go to properties. Uncheck lock. That is all.

The question was about unlocking components form the command line or a script, i.e. when you are automating something. Of course you can do it from the context menu, or the properties but that doesn't help with automation.

That is all

Hi

There is another way.

If the following is in the command line

LOCK (S@)

and then you position the mouse over the locked element and hit enter, the element is unlocked.

@ means, 'at the current cursor position'.

That's a command line option but not much different to the mouse right click and selecting 'Unlock'

If you then assign a key combination to cause the  LOCK (S@) , then the action to unlock an element becomes:

Position mouse over the locked element and then depress the key combination that runs LOCK (S@)

Warren

Hi,

late but ...

Chuck Huber wrote:

Eagle 7.7.0

 

It's clear how one can lock the position of components from the command

line:

 

   Lock LED1 LED2 LED3;

 

But what is not clear is to how to unlock it.  Thus far, I have tried:

 

   Lock -LED1      # Unkown element: -

   Lock S LED1     # Unknown element: S

   Lock (S) LED1   # Invalid point: (S) LED1

   Lock (S LED1)   # Invalid point: (S LED1)

 

What I'd like to see is:

 

   Unlock LED1 LED2 LED3;

 

Ideas? Suggestions?

if you are ok with something like "run unlock LED1 ..." you could

write an ULP that groups the given parts using the setgroup() function

and then issues an "lock (>0 0)" on exit.

something like the following would be my first try

beware: not tested at all!

     board(BRD) {

       clrgroup(BRD);

     BRD.elements(ELM) {

         if (ELM.name == argv[1]) {

           setgroup(ELM);

           exit("lock (>0 0);");

         }

       }

     }

--

Lorenz

On 04.07.2017 00:13, Chuck Huber wrote:

 

Eagle 7.7.0

 

It's clear how one can lock the position of components from the command

line:

 

    Lock LED1 LED2 LED3;

 

But what is not clear is to how to unlock it.  Thus far, I have tried:

(stuff deleted)

I dont know if it an sw accident, and it is probably just a curiosity

and of no practical use, but this works on 7.7.0:

Type

     Lock

then immediately follow up with

     (S@)

...and it gets unlocked! But the mouse pointer needs to be within the

window for it to work.. Maybe there are other side effects that can be

explored..

On 26.07.2018 13:38, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

On 04.07.2017 00:13, Chuck Huber wrote:

 

Eagle 7.7.0

 

It's clear how one can lock the position of components from the

command line:

 

    Lock LED1 LED2 LED3;

 

But what is not clear is to how to unlock it.  Thus far, I have tried:

(stuff deleted)

 

I dont know if it an sw accident, and it is probably just a curiosity

and of no practical use, but this works on 7.7.0:

 

Type

    Lock <refdes>

then immediately follow up with

    (S@)

 

...and it gets unlocked! But the mouse pointer needs to be within the

window for it to work.. Maybe there are other side effects that can be

explored..

Having just said that, here seems to be the solution to unlock!:

"lock  (S@);"

On 26.07.2018 13:40, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

On 26.07.2018 13:38, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

On 04.07.2017 00:13, Chuck Huber wrote:

 

Eagle 7.7.0

 

It's clear how one can lock the position of components from the

command line:

 

    Lock LED1 LED2 LED3;

 

But what is not clear is to how to unlock it.  Thus far, I have tried:

(stuff deleted)

 

I dont know if it an sw accident, and it is probably just a curiosity

and of no practical use, but this works on 7.7.0:

 

Type

     Lock <refdes>

then immediately follow up with

     (S@)

 

...and it gets unlocked! But the mouse pointer needs to be within the

window for it to work.. Maybe there are other side effects that can be

explored..

 

Having just said that, here seems to be the solution to unlock!:

"lock <refdes> (S@);"

Damn, I was too quick.. My mouse pointer was too close to the device I

was playing with. Both my suggestions fail if the pointer is closer to a

different device.. Sorry for the alarm