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Refreshing a component footprint

ayeye

Hi

 

I've just started using Circuit studio and all in all its been very easy to get started with and I've already produced a few PCB in house on our LPKF S63 CNC Router. I've been making my own library's of our components and parts but obviously as I haven't actually used the physical footprints until I make the board they are tested and will no doubt need editing after I make a first prototype of something.

 

What I would like to be able to is, in an existing PCB layout that I need to edit the footprints of, edit them in the library and then have the PCB update with the changes made. But I can't find a button or way to do this anywhere and end up having to delete the part from the PCB layout and then importing changes in the project drop down.

 

Can anyone help me solve this issue?

 

Many Thanks,

 

Adam Frost

Reasearch and Development

ProSys Development Services

  • When you edit a footprint in the PCBLib, there is a button on the home tab of the ribbon to "Update PCB With Current Footprint", which will update any instances of the given footprint in active and open layout files.  I have not found a way to have the layout editor identify and open the linked footprint though.

     

    If you need to change the pin names or the footprint name, as far as I can tell you have to remove the component from the layout and re-update from the schematic.