Clear the blind spots of circuit design software, batch modification of protel DXP circuit design software

“The function of the Circuit design software is to design the circuit. Without the circuit design software, the Electronic manufacturing industry will pay a higher price to design the finished product designed by the circuit design software. As for the circuit design software, the editor has done a lot of elaboration.

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The function of the circuit design software is to design the circuit. Without the circuit design software, the Electronic manufacturing industry will pay a higher price to design the finished product designed by the circuit design software. As for the circuit design software, the editor has done a lot of elaboration.

Some aspects of Protel DXP batch modification are simpler than Protel 99se. Before figuring out Protel DXP batch modification, you must first understand the difference between the Protel 99se batch modification principle and the Protel DXP batch modification principle. After that, everything is simple.

In most cases, the batch modification principle of Protel 99se is that the dialog box directly specifies the modification, while the batch modification principle of Protel DXP is to select first and then modify. As for how to select, one is manual selection, the selection method is the same as that of Protel 99se, and the other is to use menu selection.

For example, let’s talk about manual selection first, draw more than 2 lines in the PCB of Protel DXP, Bottom layer, 10mil wide, select these lines with the mouse, press F11 on the keyboard, the dialog box that pops up at this time is to ask you to batch The modified dialog box, the name of this dialog box is inspector (inspector), change the 10mil in the Width (line width) column to 30mil, press Enter, and the change is completed. Let me tell you a little trick. This inspector dialog is different from the general Windows dialog. Its properties are closer to the toolbar. It can be displayed in the drawing area or hidden on the edge of the Display like a toolbar. , when the inspector dialog box appears, it is best to drag it to the left like dragging the toolbar, so as to save the overwhelming space. If it does not hide automatically, it means that the drop-down arrow in the upper left corner and the awl-like thing in the middle of the fork is oblique. Use the mouse to click it horizontally, and then click the blank space with the mouse to hide it automatically. Now use the mouse frame again. Select the selection line, press F11 of the keyboard, it will appear, you can use the mouse to change the width of the inspector dialog box, similar to the inspector dialog box, there are three more in Protel DXP, Project (project), Libraries (library), List (List), I’m usually on the far left, which is very convenient.

This kind of manual selection and batch modification is still useful in actual drawing. The only thing to note is that when one object is selected in Protel DXP, the other object is restored. Press and hold the Shift key to select, select one is one, you see this, batch modification I understand half of it.

Another example is the second method. If there are more than two X: 62mil, Y: 62mil pads in the PCB, change all of them to X: 70mil, Y: 70mil pads, in two steps:

The first step, select, use the mouse cursor to point to one of the pads to be modified, the cursor should not point to the center of the circle, let alone the outside, point to the area with only the pad layer, click the right mouse button, the right mouse button menu will appear once, no In this way, before popping up the right mouse button menu, you need to choose whether it is a pad or a wire connected to the pad, or a device, you can only select Pad (pad), and click the first item Find Similar Objects in the pop-up right mouse button menu. Similar Objects), the Find Similar Objects dialog box pops up, first select the following Mask Matching, a tick appears, in fact, the following five items are ticked, click Pad X Size (All Layers) and Pad Y Size (All Layers) Any (arbitrary) in the two columns, a drop-down arrow appears, both are selected as Same (same), click OK, the List (list) dialog box appears, this dialog box is a toolbar type dialog box, use the above method On the left, it can be hidden. At this time, you can see that the color of all 62mil pads remains unchanged, and other things are darkened, and the selection is completed.

The second step, change, press F11, the inspector dialog box appears, the method of change is basically the same as the method described above, change the 62mil in the Pad X Size and Pad Y Size columns to 70mil, press Enter, change complete. The problem now is that the place that hasn’t been changed is still dark and can’t be used anymore, don’t worry? Use the mouse to click item 12 on the main toolbar, and a button with a funnel next to a red cross will be restored.

In addition, batch modification of lines, hidden component values, character size, batch modification in the schematic diagram, etc. are similar. Follow it. The F11 shortcut key is equivalent to the right mouse button/inspector.