1 Searching for Parts and marking them on screen (in gerbv)
3 THIS FUNCTIONALITY IS ONLY AVAILABLE WHEN COMPILING GERBV AGAINST GTK2!
5 Please direct any comments, suggestions etc. to Juergen <juergenhaas@gmx.net>
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7 *** Support for Pick and Place files: ***
8 *** csv-style files with/without quotes ***
9 *** the following delimiters are supported ';' ':' '|' ',' ***
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14 A pick and place file has 11 columns (the first two lines a file in gerbv/examplei are shown here) and looks like this:
16 Designator:Footprint:Mid X:Mid Y:Ref X:Ref Y:Pad X:Pad Y:Layer:Rotation:Comment
18 R29:0805_REFL:25.4mm:72.644mm:25.4mm:72.644mm:25.4mm:71.6788mm:T:90.00:1K/1%
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21 Some instructions for the first time user:
23 after loading a PNP file a new dialog will come up offering various option of selecting and graphically marking electronic parts.
25 Three modes of selecting items do exist:
26 1)enter any search phrase and hit enter
27 (See also paragraph "SCROLLING" further down)
28 -Generally under linux regexp expressions are used such as ".*" i.e. '*'
29 -All matches will be marked in the list AND on the screen
30 -if you press ESC or press <ENTER> on an empty line it will deselect all
32 -if you had a selection already and you would like to add single items
33 one by one, just hold down CTRL key while you left-click on the desired fields
35 2)just simply use left click combined with Shift and/or CTRL for manual
36 mouse driven selections
37 Pressing right button of mouse will not only select but also draw item on
40 3)if you have pressed <ENTER> on an empty phrase you first of all will deselct
41 anything which was selected and you can then enter the so-called "assembly
42 mode" by left clicking on an item and afterwards pressing space as often as
43 desired, while the select parts dialog is active. The selection will move
44 down the list one by one displaying the selected part in the window
45 automatically (with the corresponding layer being active).
48 If you had more than one item selected and you did not clear
49 the selections list by <ENTER> on an empty phrase, only the first item will
50 be taken into account and all others will be deselected.
53 You can of course also select an item by clicking on it, pressing space will
54 then proceed as described
56 This mode also features arrows Up/Down selection, where arrow Up will reverse
57 the action of arrow Down/Spacebar. Furthermore, holding SHIFT while pressing
58 arrow Up/Down will increase the selection in either direction
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62 4)Inversion of selection:
63 pressing this button at any given time inverts the selection concerning the
64 whole list and upon clicking Mark button this new selection will be drawn
68 5)Top/bottom selection
69 General: press mark to mark selections on screen, after choosing to select
72 a)in existing selection will only remove non wanted items
73 (e.g. all bottom parts if you press "top parts") from selection
75 b)if there is no selection, all top or all bottoms parts are selected
78 6)Choose available layers for marking selected parts from drop-down list
79 HINT: if pick and place file is loaded last, already occupied layers
80 will not be in the drop-down list
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84 right click functionality to know Part description.
85 After you have graphically marked a number of parts (say all resistors) you can right click onto a part which is selected in the scroll-down list of available parts in the search dialog.
86 Its designator, comment and footprint are then shown in the statusbar and in the log window.
87 This comes in handy if there are many parts you want to look at, but e.g. you already know a fault has occurred only on one side of the board.
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91 SCROLLING (in the dialog window)
92 Scrolling generally only occurs, if search for comments is not activated AND
93 also whenever enter is hit the list will bescrolled to the first hit,
94 regardless of the search mode.
95 The use of BackSpace is supported.
96 If you decide to select an entry from the list of completions offered, then the
97 scrolling will only occur once you press enter.
100 imagine you are looking for an element labelled EU3:
101 If you hit the first key (E) to enter a search phrase in the entry field, the
102 list will be scrolled to the first element matching this key (E), also entering
103 a subsequent key (U) will then further refine that and scroll to the first
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