Layout Editor

Contents:

• Getting started
  • Layout editor PCB elegance
  • Getting started
  • Viewable window
• File
  • Make new layout
  • Design rules when using a printer for the plot outputs
  • Importing components/netlist
  • Updating components/netlist
  • Plot output to gerber format
  • Plot output to printer
  • Save layout as a geometry
  • Penplot output
  • Print screen
  • Output netlist
  • Import DXF
  • Export to DXF file
  • Export to PDF
  • Export to bitmap
  • Import a bitmap
  • Import a gerber file
  • Initialisation file pcb.ini
• Edit
  • Move entire PCB
  • Change design rules
  • Center view on component
  • Via definition
  • Zero relative cursor
  • Component protection
  • Undo
  • Redo
• View
  • View topics
  • Hide/view layers
  • Zoom in
  • Zoom out
  • Pan window
  • Window based panning
  • Unhighlight all
  • Return to previous view window
  • Repaint
  • View whole design
  • Measurement
  • Change colors
  • Load default colors
  • Short cuts
  • Change units
• Selection objects
  • Selection/deselection objects
  • Deselect all
  • Info on selected objects
  • Make selections in dialog listboxes
• Layers
  • Insert layer
  • Remove layer
  • Swap layers
• Components
  • Components
  • Activate component menu
  • Move component by reference
  • Move components to fixed position
  • Rotate components
  • Align components
  • Move components to top/bottom layer
  • Import component positions
  • Regroup components
  • Edit geometry
  • Change component parameters
  • Edit component value
  • Protect components
  • Component info
  • Move multiple components
• Nets
  • Delete traces/vias nets
  • Change design rules nets
  • Highlight/unhighlight nets
  • Disable connections nets
  • Hide connections nets
  • Unselect traces/vias nets
• Connections
  • Hide all connections
  • View all connections
  • Highlight visible connections
• Traces/vias
  • Traces/vias
  • Activate routing menu
  • Trace popup menu
  • Add via
  • Highlight/unhighlight net
  • Modify trace
  • Trace drawing feature
  • Add extra trace
  • Start routing with the shortest net
  • Show next connection
• Change traces/vias
  • Change traces/vias
  • Move traces/vias
  • Copy traces/vias
  • Copy traces/vias to clipboard
  • Copy traces/vias from clipboard
  • Change trace width
  • Change clearance traces/vias
  • Change via
  • Calculate length trace
  • Swap traces/vias two nets
  • Delete traces/vias net selected trace
  • Delete
• Drag one trace
  • Activate drag one trace menu
• Dragging traces/vias/components
  • Actitate Dragging traces/vias/components menu
• Check
  • Check connectivity
  • Check design rules
  • View design rule errors
  • Show next design rule error/warning
• Powerplanes
  • Powerplanes
  • Add powerplane
  • Cut from powerplane
  • Change powerplane
  • Remove powerplane
• Areafills
  • Areafills
  • Add areafill inside a powerplane
  • Change areafill
  • Merge areafills
  • Add to areafill
  • Cut from areafill
  • Rebuild areafill
  • Mirror X areafill
  • Mirror Y areafill
  • Copy areafill
  • Move areafill
  • View vertices areafill
  • Stretch areafill
  • Delete areafill
• Special objects
  • Special objects
  • Add special objects
  • Change objects
    • Change special objects
    • Copy objects array
    • Copy objects polar
    • Assign net to objects
    • Assign no net to objects
• Gate/pin swap
  • Gate/pin swap
• Schematic link
  • Schematic link

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