Darcy What version of protel are you using? In DXP on you can embed PCBs into a panel with step an repeats. When you do it this way any change made on the initial PCB is reflected on th panel ad also the gerbers when generated.
Ian Capps ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darcy Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:02 AM Subject: [PEDA] Global position change of a component designator > Hey Folks, > > Does anybody know a way of globally moving a component primitive on a > component which is used multiple times? For example, we have a design in > which the pin 1 marker (which is a part of the component definition) will > be > obscured by other features. This design is panelized in Protel. I'd like > to > be able move the pin 1 globally to avoid having to repanelize, but can't > find a way to move these markers all at once. If the marker wasn't a part > of > a component, it would be easy to do a global select and then move the > selection by the desired offset, but this doesn't seem to work for > component > primitives. > > Just to stop the assertions that I should panelize the Gerbers in > Camtastic > rather than panelizing the design in Protel, there are several features on > the panel which necessitate doing this in Protel. > > > Darcy Davis > Mechanical Team Leader > DYNASTREAM INNOVATIONS INC. > 228 River Ave. > Cochrane, AB Canada T4C 2C1 > T 403-932-9292 ext. 132 > F 403-932-6521 > E [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W www.dynastream.com www.thisisant.com > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
