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JohnG300c
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 16 Dec 2007 22:33 Altium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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| Any way to drag a footprint and have the traces follow (i.e. rubberbanding)?
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difflvl
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17 Dec 2007 3:28 Re: Altium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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| You can try edit-move-drag track end then drag your component and it should drag the track too. But the results aren't always great.
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JohnG300c
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17 Dec 2007 5:03 Re: Altium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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| I tried everything on the edit menu but can't seem to drag a component such that the connected buses follow "nicely". Altium essentially only rubberbands the last trace segments instead of the whole trace.
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dindeds
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17 Dec 2007 5:39 Re: Altium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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AD can do this? I don't think so. Is this possible House Cat?
However I know Expedition can do this easily.
http://www.edaboard.com/ftopic265672.html
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House_Cat
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17 Dec 2007 6:11 Re: Altium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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You have to set your preferences to allow dragging tracks with a component. Go to Preferences>>PCB Editor>>Other>>Comp Drag, and select "Connected Tracks". Now when you use "move component" (shortcut MC), the tracks will drag with the component as long as they aren't locked.
Note that it is only the tracks connected to the component that drag. The entire net doesn't drag - that would make a mess of the board.
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JohnG300c
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19 Dec 2007 8:13 @ltium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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| House Cat: I don't see any "other/comp drag setting" in AD 6.6. Can you confirm this setting?
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House_Cat
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19 Dec 2007 23:10 Re: @ltium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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| House Cat: I don't see any "other/comp drag setting" in AD 6.6. Can you confirm this setting? |
I left out one pointer - the "Other" settings are on the "General" page of the PCB Editor Preferences. My post should have said "Preferences>PCB Editor>General>Other>Comp Drag". That setting has been in the preferences pages of every version of Protel/Altium as far back as I can remember.
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tinkubharti007
Joined: 03 Apr 2008
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04 Apr 2008 3:47 @ltium Designer: How to drag PCB component with traces? |
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HI!
In ORCAD PCB editor...you can do it by selecting the
stretch etch in option in the move command
ENjoy!
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