[PCB_FORUM] Re: Globally change to alt symbol across board

Hey Mark,

Oooooooops!!

I'm sorry, but I thought I learned over the years not to assume!
We don't have any symbols in our library set up with alternates, so I
was not able to test it out completely, and *assumed* that if the
symbols
were set up with an alternate symbol, that you could change all of them
at once.  Guess I should have stayed out of this one!

Regards,

 
Gary E. MacIndoe
PCB Design Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices
Longmont, Colorado
 
amd.com
gary.macindoe@xxxxxxx

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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:27 AM
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Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Globally change to alt symbol across board

Hello again Gary,
Is this another 15.1 issue?
I could not get this to work.
Steps 1-3 work fine.
But step 4 does not.
I could not get RMB "alt sym" selection when moving symbol  by
"symtype".
I tried with move by pin 1, user pick, origin and with / without
"stretch"

Also, I have never been able to select "alt sym" when using temp group.

What am I missing?

Thanks again for your input!
Mark
Macindoe, Gary wrote:

>Hey Mark,
>
>So did you get my last post?  Did you ever get the searchable PDF to
>work?
>
>So, your latest problem is no big thing! Simply follow the steps below:
>
>1) Get in the Move command
>
>2) In the Find tab at right, in the "Find Buy Name" field, pull-down to
>"Symtype", then click the More button.
>
>3) In the window that comes up, choose the symbol name (i.e. "0603"),
>then click OK (all of the chosen symbols in your design will
highlight).
>
>4) Now, click on a reference point (all of the symbols are "picked
up"),
>then RMB to "Alt Symbol", then click back on the reference point to set
>all of the symbols down in their original location.
>
>
>This will only work if you want *all* of a particular symbol type
>changed to the alternate symbol.  If not, you could at least get into
>the Move command, RMB to Temp Group, select all symbols you want with a
>click, box or a combination of the two, then RMB to Complete, RMB again
>to Alt Symbol, then put them down where they were.
>
>Good luck!
>
> 
>Gary E. MacIndoe
>PCB Design Engineer
>Advanced Micro Devices
>Longmont, Colorado
> 
>amd.com
>gary.macindoe@xxxxxxx
>
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>[mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Salberg
>Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:33 PM
>To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Globally change to alt symbol across board
>
>Can I change all of my 500 relays to an alternate symbol across the 
>whole board?
>The only way I can find to do it is thru delete / manual place or Move
/
>
>select alt sym the place back down.
>Very very time consuming concidering this can not be done in "stretch
>mode".
>All my parts are on a 1 mil grid.
>
>HELP!
>
>Thanks,
>Mark
>
>
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