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Would love ability to move components in 3D view

jstrautman

Our company used Eagle for years and recently bought a license for Circuit Studio due to some of it's features.  One of the great features is the 3D component.  However, we are slightly annoyed by the fact that we cannot move components in the 3D view and have to move back and fourth from 2D to 3D to get components in the correct position with respect to enclosures/mounting components etc.

 

We have kept our old Eagle system and were offered a chance to upgrade to the newest version which now supports a 3D component.  We understand that with the new Eagle/Fusion360  solution you have to import/export to and from the 3D environment, but they have given a solution to move things around in 3D environment.

 

I'm hoping that the Element14 team is aware of this new feature in Eagle and would request the ability to move components in 3D to be added to the next release of CS.  I fear that our company will try the new version of Eagle and want to switch back if the 3D editing works well.  And I like some other features of CS over Eagle, but may not win the battle without the 3D movement capability.

  • Hello,

    You can open PCB panel ( with Components tab active ) in 3D view. Select one or more components and then right click and select Reposition Components. You can now move, rotate and flip components in 3D.

  • in reply to songshome

    Thank you for the suggestion.  But I am unaware of what you mean by "Components Tab active".  I have tried every which way and cannot find a "Reposition Components" command.  Can you explain in more detail where to find these buttons/tabs?

  • in reply to jstrautman

    I am not at computer right now. On left side of Circuitstudio there is

    panel. On top of it, there is pull down for components, nets... If there is

    no panel, you can enable it under Home or View Tab. Then you select

    component with left click, right click on selection, and then choose

    reposition component. Hope this helps.

  • in reply to songshome

    Great suggestion.  This does work for me and I never would have found it myself.  Give the man some points for this!

     

    You have to pick the part from the PCB components list in the left side panel.  Then right click on the Designator in the list and NOT on the part on the PCB.  The context sensitive menu has the reposition option.

     

    Hopefully, a future version of CS will make this more intuitive but this seems to work for now.

     

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    Now if there was just a way to reposition the silkscreen text in 3D.... I'm pretty sure I could do it in a full Altium version but maybe this is a feature they prefer to limit access to for marketing reasons.

  • in reply to tarribred61

    Thomas Rounds wrote:

     

    Great suggestion. This does work for me and I never would have found it myself. Give the man some points for this!

    You can give the man some points yourself by clicking like and helpful on his post image

  • in reply to songshome

    I was able to get this to work.  It took a little playing around with it though as I normally don't use the "PCB" window and did not have it shown in my custom screen layout.  Once I added that window I now see how you can do it.  Thanks for the tip!!!