Parent page: Schematic Commands
The following pre-packaged resources, derived from this base command, are available:
Focus Single Object
Applied Parameters: None
Summary
This feature enables you to select individual design objects in the current document. Certain design objects, once selected, can then be changed graphically, with respect to their size and/or shape.
Access
This feature is accessed in the Schematic Editor, and Schematic Library Editor, simply by clicking on a placed design object.
Use
Position the cursor over the object you wish to select/graphically change and click. The object will become selected and editing handles will be shown at various editing points around the object. To change the shape and/or size of the object, click & drag an editing handle. The exact nature of the change will depend on the object you are editing.
As you click on a subsequent design object, the previous object will become deselected. If you want to build up a selection, simply use
Shift+click on subsequent objects. Alternatively, disable the
Click Clears Selection option, on the
Schematic - Graphical Editing page of the
Preferences dialog.
Tips
- The selected object will be highlighted in the selection color defined in the Selections field, on the Schematic - Graphical Editing tab of the Preferences dialog.
- Not all objects have properties which can be graphically edited. Junctions, net labels, components, design directives etc, are a fixed size and shape. Using this feature will cause objects of these types to be selected only.
- The default behavior to focus a single design object is click to select. This can be changed by enabling the Shift Click To Select option, on the Schematic - Graphical Editing page of the Preferences dialog. Click the associated Primitives button to access the Must Hold Shift To Select dialog, from where you can configure which design objects require a Shift+click to select them, and which can be selected with a simple click.
- Where a group of objects overlap, use the command repeatedly to cycle through the objects, selection-wise, with the object at the front selected first, then the object drawn next behind it selected, and so on.