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CircuitStudio Hidden Commands

Applies to Versions: [1.5.1]

 

CircuitStudio, through its use of a modern ribbon interface, is designed to be easy to use and accessible to those whose full time job is not PCB design. Those wishing to access the full power of the product will be interested in these extra commands that are not accessible via a button or other dedicated UI element.

 

The following are accessed by typing a search string into the search bar on the upper right of the editor window.

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The search string should be the command name or a few characters from it so that it will be returned in the search results dropdown.

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PCB Editor

Convert > Create Region From Selected Primitives

Deselect > Touching Rectangle

Deselect > Touching Line

Design > Make PCB Library

Paste Array...

Pin/Part Swapping > Automatic Net/Pin Optimizer...

Pin/Part Swapping > Configure...

Pin/Part Swapping > Interactive Differential-Pair Swapping

Pin/Part Swapping > Interactive Part Swapping

Pin/Part Swapping > Interactive Pin/Net Swapping

Place > 3D Body

Report > Measure Selected Objects

Select > Touching Rectangle

Select > Touching Line

 

PCB Library Editor

Convert > Create Region From Selected Primitives

Deselect > Touching Rectangle

Deselect > Touching Line

PCB Lib Placement > Paste Array...

Tools > Component Wizard

Tools > Library Splitter Wizard...

Reports > Library Component

Reports > Library List

Select > Touching Rectangle

Select > Touching Line

 

Schematic Editor

Deselect > Touching Rectangle

Deselect > Touching Line

Design > Create Sheet From Sheet Symbol

Design > Create Sheet Symbol From Sheet

Port Cross Reference > Add To Project

Port Cross Reference > Add To Sheet

Port Cross Reference > Remove From Project

Port Cross Reference > Remove From Sheet

Select > Touching Rectangle

Select > Touching Line

 

Schematic Library Editor

Deselect > Touching Rectangle

Deselect > Touching Line

Edit > Paste Array...

Select > Touching Rectangle

Select > Touching Line

Tools > Configure Pin Swapping...

 

 

Do you know of any more useful commands? If so let us know in the comments section below.

  • In "PCB Editor" there is a "Design > Make PCB Library". This appears to build a PCBLIB of just footprints.

    However, in "Schematic Editor" there is no corresponding "Design > Make SCH Library".

    There seems to be no way to get the schematic symbol for a part from the board schematic like that for footprints.

    Well, it's a symmetrical and somewhat confusing.

  • in reply to mc6800

    Thank you a lot!

     

    I missed this option in PCB Libraries tool.

  • If you just want to import a new symbol from the PCB Libraries tool, the simplest option is to:

     

    1) use the make new library option in export (instead of the existing library option)

    2) run the .pas file

    3) copy the new symbol in the new library to the "real" library

    4) close + delete the temporary new library created

  • Unfortunately I don't think there is a direct way to move the focus to the .pcblib file in CS with scripts. The only work-around I can think of is to modify the script file to ask the user to manually select an open library file. As far as I can tell from AD, the script file commands exist to allow this, but so far I haven't managed to create a working solution (it probably needs someone with AD script experience to create a reusable module to add to CS scripts).

     

    I imagine the process would be:

     

    a) Offer a dialog box with all open documents of the correct type (e.g .pcblib, .sch etc)

    b) User selects one

    c) Script make the chosen file the selected option for the remainder of the script

  • in reply to mc6800

    Hi!

     

    Could you provide some help ?

    After .pas opening in CS and "run" command via search box I see an error message:

    "You must have focus on a PCB Library in order for this script to run."

    How to fix this issue ?

    During script run focus always switches to .pas script from .pcblib file.

     

    Thanks!

  • If you open a script file you can use "run" in the search box to run a selected function in the script. I'm not sure how compatible this is with AD, but it seems adequate to import footprints from the PCBLibraries footprint generator.

     

    If you type "wiz" in the search box when in a PCB library one of the options offered is the (missing) IPC footprint generator - although unfortunately it doesn't actually do anything!