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Two projects open in the Projects panel with one PCB selected and open in the editor.
This panel displays all projects that are currently open. Any open documents that have not been created as part of a project or added to an existing open project will also be listed.
The Projects panel is accessed in the following ways:
When you open an existing project or create a new one, its entry will appear in the Projects panel. Any existing documents that are part of a project (and any new ones that have been added) will appear under sub-folders, according to their purpose and/or type. For example, the following common folders and content document types can appear under a project:
Any documents that are independent of a project will appear as Free Documents and will appear under corresponding sub-folders.
Along with allowing multiple documents to be open for editing, the environment also supports multiple projects being open at the same time. These could be related or unrelated projects.
Documents in the Projects panel are automatically arranged in logical groups or 'folders', such as Source Documents (Schematic, PCB, etc.), Settings documents (Harness, Outjob, etc.) and, in the case of a hierarchical design, top-level schematic documents. The documents within each folder group are displayedby default in the order they were added but can be dragged and dropped to a new order position within the group.
In the case of a new hierarchical design, the parent-child relationship between documents will be displayed in the panel when the project has been compiled. Note that the connectivity relationships cannot be defined by dragging and dropping schematic documents since the inter-sheet connections and design hierarchy are in fact defined by Sheet Symbols and Port definitions.
In the panel's main tree, the active project is highlighted using the Windows Active Title Bar color for your system. When there are no documents open in the design editor window, a project is made active by selecting it from a list of all currently open (loaded) projects in the panel. As soon as a project document is opened (in an editor/viewer), the parent project of that document automatically becomes the active project.
The active document in the design editor window will also be highlighted in the panel and accompanied by the file open icon.
The highlighting of an opened active document and its active parent project.
With numerous documents open in the design editor window, changing the active document using editor's document tabs will cause the Projects panel to update accordingly – to reflect both the active document and the active project (if the document made active does not reside in the same project as the previously active document). Conversely, clicking on the entry for a document that is already open (and that belongs to a non-active project) will make the parent project of that document the active project.
Only one project and document may be active at any given time, however the panel allows you to focus and perform actions on any project or document. Right-clicking on the entry for a non-active project or a non-active document will bring up an associated menu with commands targeting the focused project or focused document, respectively.
In the case of focusing a document, the document will only become focused if it is closed or hidden, otherwise it will become the active document and its parent project will become the active project. For example, in the image below, the active project is Blank PCB Project.PrjPcb
and the active document is Sheet1.SchDoc
. The focused document is Sheet2.SchDoc
(distinguished in the panel by a dotted outline box) in the inactive TestProject123.PrjPcb
project.
An opened active document (blue) and a selected focused document, indicated by the dotted outline.
Document entries in the Projects panel are accompanied by icons that indicate their open/modified/version control status. This provides a quick visual summary of which documents are modified, saved or hidden and the their version control status. The document icons and meanings are listed below.
Right-clicking on a Project file in the Projects panel provides access to additional options and commands via the right-click menu.
Typical right-click context menu for a project.
Right-click selections include:
Right-clicking on a Document file in the Projects panel provides access to a pop-up context menu offering a range of document-specific options and commands.
Typical right-click context menu for a document (Schematic document)
Several right-click options are basically the same as when right-clicking on a Project, outlined above (for example, Variants). Others include:
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