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Select>Connection   tool bug???

jstrautman

When working on a schematic sheet... when I click the Connection tool in the Select ribbon menu and then click on a wire on my schematic layout, the wire does indeed get selected like I want and all other wires and parts get greyed out.  But when I press Esc to get rid of the tool, all other parts and wires on my schematic stay greyed out and I cannot select any of them.  No matter what tool I pick, I cannot get those parts to go back to normal.

 

Is this a bug in the software?  Or am I missing something very easy to get the sheet back to normal?

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    On the view tab, in the schematic section, click Clear Masks.

     

    This just seems a very strange way of doing things because in CS you're missing a bunch of tools from AD that would allow you to filter and mask off parts.  In AD it makes more sense.

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    Here is one more way you can go about it:

     

    Home > Select > Connection, click a connection on the schematic will mask out everything else so that the connection is effectively highlighted. There is a convenient shortcut key to clear the mask: Shift+C which I find very useful and worth remembering. It's the same functionality as the button View > Clear Masks.

    A similar function to select connection is to hold the Ctrl key and double click a Sheet Entry or a Port. These objects are used to connect between sheets in the heirarchy and this technique navigates to the other sheet and sets a temporary mask. This type of mask can be cleared by just left clicking on the sheet, so you don't even need to clear the mask.

    If you use Tools > Cross Probe and click a schematic component, the PCB will be masked except for that component. It can then be seen easily and selected, edited, etc., without affecting other objects.