The thread on resizing fills got me thinking... Here are some other mouse characteristics that can be handy to know. To manipulate vias and tracks while maintaining connected track connections (dragging endpoints), you click once to focus, click again to manipulate. On vias there is not much you can do, but on tracks, you can move endpoints, or break track (into two segments) depending on the handles clicked, or move the entire segment with the other connected segments being dragged with the endpoints if you click between the handles. Fills can have corners moved, sides moved, or fill rotated depending on which handle is clicked, or move entire fill if clicked between handles, but unfortunately can only be rectangles. Polygon planes behave completely differently, requiring edit-polygon planes to be invoked before any handles show up to click, but if you click and hold on the polygon, you can move it as a whole. However, did you know that a ctrl-click can modify this behavior? Say you want to move a lot vias while maintaining the track connections (dragging the track endpoints with the via), you would have to: click via 1, wait to focus, click again to move, click via 2, wait to focus, click again to move, etc. To speed this up, you can ctrl-click on the via, and it is already in this mode (unfocused), saving not only one click, but the wait after the click for focus to occur for each via. Similarly, ctrl-click on a track also saves an extra click, allowing movement of the track while dragging the endpoints of connected tracks, as well as dragging endpoints with connected tracks if you ctrl-click where the endpoint handle would be. Breaking track might be possible, but it would be pretty hard without seeing where the center handle would be. Unfortunately, I have found no effect with fills, it is the same as click-and-hold move. Same with polygon planes. Anybody else know of other handy characteristics that might not be so commonly known? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This message sent by: PROTEL EDA USERS MAILING LIST * * Use the "reply" command in your email program to * respond to this message. * * To unsubscribe from this mailing list use the form at * the Association web site. You will need to give the same * email address you originally used to subscribe (do not * give an alias unless it was used to subscribe). * * Visit http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/subscrib.html * to unsubscribe or to subscribe a new email address. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ______________________________________________________ To post a message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe or subscribe we recommend using the form at our web site: http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/subscrib.html You may also unsubscribe directly by email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=leave%20proteledaforum> however this may fail if you're trying to unsubscribe an "old" email address, an alias mail account, or if your mail client uses an unusual encoding format. To contact the Forum Administrator: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
