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"Find similar object" feature

jmarkwolf

I’ve been using Altium, and Protel before
that, every day for about 20 years. I’m retiring shortly and have purchased
Circuit Studio for home use and consulting. I am pleased with my purchase decision.

 

One feature I’ve come to depend on in
Altium Designer is the “Find Similar Object”.

 

While upgrading some older Altium designs,
I needed to update schematic symbol parameters parts to reflect SMT footprints vs thru-hole
footprints. I found that I needed to manually select many parts across
multiple pages in order to make use of the schematic Inspector, which then allowed editing
the desired parameters. I’ll need to do this again to upgrade part numbers,
etc. Very tedious.

 

Please add the “Find Similar Object”
feature to Circuit Studio.

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  • Not the same as Altium but I have used PCB inspector (in the PCB editor) as a "filter" rather than a "finder" after selecting all objects in a design. Navigate to the PCB inspector and then select all (Ctrl+A), then filter the type of object you wish to work on, you can then adjust a single parameter of the specified object. For instance, "I want to adjust all traces on the tope layer to have a width of 0.5mm", after the design has been laid out. You can do this by selecting all objects in the design and filtering by "include only" in the PCB Inspector and then adjusting the width parameter in the PCB Inspector.

     

    SCH Inspector looks similar although not as easy to navigate as Altium.

     

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  • in reply to audioboy140

    I am not going to apologise for anything!  If there is any apologising to be done it should be done by Altium!

     

    I have been using Altium Designer for more years than I care to remember, but to keep up with advances in PCB technology I really feel that I ought to upgrade to a more up to date CAD package, and Circuit Studio seemed to be the best compromise for me - It fulfils 99% of my requirements and as I too am semi retired I cannot justify, or afford and nor do I need the current full Altium Designer package!

     

    However, it would seem from all the foregoing requests for a feature equivalent to "Find Similar Objects" for both Schematic and PCB packages that this is is a genuine shortcoming / omission from Circuit Studio.

     

    If Altium think that by ignoring our requests for a simple upgrade we will eventually pay for a bigger and better CAD package they are mistaken!

     

    I for one will go back to my old version of Altium Designer (Service Pack 3!) or more likely move to Eagle or EasyEDA or one of the many other very capable packages available out there.

     

    The ball is in your court Altium!

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  • in reply to audioboy140

    I am not going to apologise for anything!  If there is any apologising to be done it should be done by Altium!

     

    I have been using Altium Designer for more years than I care to remember, but to keep up with advances in PCB technology I really feel that I ought to upgrade to a more up to date CAD package, and Circuit Studio seemed to be the best compromise for me - It fulfils 99% of my requirements and as I too am semi retired I cannot justify, or afford and nor do I need the current full Altium Designer package!

     

    However, it would seem from all the foregoing requests for a feature equivalent to "Find Similar Objects" for both Schematic and PCB packages that this is is a genuine shortcoming / omission from Circuit Studio.

     

    If Altium think that by ignoring our requests for a simple upgrade we will eventually pay for a bigger and better CAD package they are mistaken!

     

    I for one will go back to my old version of Altium Designer (Service Pack 3!) or more likely move to Eagle or EasyEDA or one of the many other very capable packages available out there.

     

    The ball is in your court Altium!

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