On 25/04/2017 12:35 a.m., Miklos Marton wrote:
When populating boards by hand I usually use the SHOW command with the @ argument.
It works well with a single component:
But there is an use case when I would like to highlight multiple parts (with the same value):
In this case the EAGLE draws one big rectangle, but showing separate rectangles would make more sense like on this gimposhopped image.
To not "break backward compatibility" I would recommend to implement this separate rectangle behavior only when each part name is suffixed with a @
Like SHOW R1 R2 R14 @ should show a single rectangle, while SHOW R1 @ R2 @ R14 @ should show them separately.
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In my opinion a whole bunch of rectangles are not the answer. What you
need is high visibility of the location of the parts of interest,
without clutter.
Previously I have proposed previously that during 'show' the board view
is greyed. It is the low light colours that are greyed. This is how
Altium do it and where the idea came from. Highlight colours remain as
you have set them in your palette so the items you 'show' are very obvious.
I'll attach an image which E14 users will need to go to eaglecentral to see.
http://www.eaglecentral.ca
In my world, a ulp toggles between the grey and normal palette.
A second ulp, showvals_Eagle_7 downloadable form autodesk
http://eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/download/1776
locates the common value you wish to highlight.
In the attached I keyed in the value 100nf to locate the 100nf capacitors.
Warren
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Apr 24, 2017 3:49 PM
