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Jump Component and View Configurations Hotkeys

spe672

In Altium Designer PCB view, you can press "J" "C" and that opens a text box where you can type in a ref des and your cursor will "jump" to point at the component on your PCB.  Can I do this in CS with some other keystrokes?

 

ALSO, pressing L in Altium will bring up the "View Configurations" window.  In CS, I have to double click the active layer button in the lower left.  Is there any way to set up hotkeys?  I don't find anything in the preferences area.

 

Thanks!

Andy

  • Pressing l (lower case L) will bring up the View configurations window. can't help with the others though ....

    regards

    Peter

  • Hello Andy,

     

    Unfortunately, Circuit Studio has fairly limited hotkeys and menu shortcut keys, as compared to Altium Designer due to the ribbon-style interface vs menu-style interface. However, I do agree that they should at least allow customization of shortcut keys due to this limitation.

     

    In terms of Jump to Component, the only workaround that I found is using the command search on the top right corner to execute the command and open up the prompt window.

     

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    Not sure what PeterC meant above because I was not able to hit l to bring up the View configurations window in CS Version 1.3 either. My method is by single-clicking the colored box right beside the "LS" key.

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    Please let me know how this goes for you, thank you.

     

    Regards,

    Eu Jin

  • in reply to solidcore

    Thanks of the input!  Thanks for finding the Jump command; it exists in the program, wish we could quickly access it.  Your method is better than nothing! 

     

    I access the View Configurations window as you do, thanks for confirming.  The L key in CS is a location command.  Maybe in the future we'll get access to setting hot keys!  image

     

    Andy

  • in reply to solidcore

    I confess that I am now using Solidworks PCB which as far as I'm aware is essentially a clone of Circuit Studio.

    Apart from having more limitations (like no access to the Vault) I had not found any other differences.

     

    The lower case L definitely works in this.

     

    Apologies if I raised hopes....

     

    Peter

  • in reply to spe672

    Hi,

    Shift + L will open Board Layers and colours in CircuitStudio.

  • in reply to songshome

    Thank you, I'm excited to try this out when I get home tonight!

  • in reply to Former Member

    NP, I expected L to work as well.  It's been that way in Altium Designer and Protel before it since the 90's.  Why not incorporate that into CS?  I don't get it. 

     

    Thanks

  • in reply to songshome

    Perfect, exactly what I needed!  Thanks!

  • in reply to spe672

    I access the View Configurations dialogue approximately once every 10 minutes (sometimes more). Are we the only ones that use this so often? The omission of a hotkey seems silly, I also cant wait to try SHFT+L thanks for the tip

     

    It's a bummer the config files are not directly compatible with Altium, I don't see the benefit of having to re-create them if you move from CS up to AD. It's very handy to flip between placement views and routing views with different layers active to minimize the visual noise.