topic eagle 9, smash is reposition? in EAGLE Forum (Read-Only)

eagle 9, smash is reposition?

charliex2 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 03:40:23 GMT

group

smash

right click , says Reposition group?

Re: eagle 9, smash is reposition?

matt.berggren — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:25:58 GMT

Hi Charlie –

Yes. Reposition replaced Smash. I agree in this context that is a little unclear. The below video describes the differences. We want to avoid the esoteric terms like Smash which have zero meaning anywhere outside of the EAGLE UI. And since we were adding so much more to the tool, we went with what it’s really for…Repositioning Attributes. Unfortunately, in this corner case, that verbiage is a little weak and unclear. We will do whatever we can to avoid bringing Smash back into the UI in a strong way but it sounds like we need to rethink this scenario. Thanks for the heads up.

Video explaining:
https://youtu.be/0UEXd_LcbPc

Cheers,

Matt

Re: eagle 9, smash is reposition?

charliex2 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:37:49 GMT

cool, no arguments here , just been having a time of it recently 🙂 so in the mode.

Re: eagle 9, smash is reposition?

matt.berggren — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:44:58 GMT

Anytime man. Looking forward to seeing the L1 board up close. WRT to the Altium PCB translation, we’re working on it. No ETA yet but if you have a need, I can share much better ways to get tracks and polygons out of it than Gerber.

Best regards,
Matt

Re: eagle 9, smash is reposition?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 May 2018 15:10:31 GMT

How do you smash a group of components? It doesn't seem to work like it did before. I'm sure it must be operator error -- btw I have watched the video

Re: eagle 9, smash is reposition?

charliex2 — Tue, 01 May 2018 18:08:13 GMT

either type

smash

group

select the group you want to reposition

right click on a grouped component or in area and it should show reposition group on the context menu (see my video)

or you can do

group then

smash

Re: eagle 9, smash is reposition?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 May 2018 19:06:06 GMT

That works -- guess I have to do a better job of purging "smash" from my vocabulary.

Thanks!

Re: eagle 9, smash is reposition?

Menneset — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 15:19:07 GMT

If you are rethinking scenarios, please consider a Show/Hide option in the Reposition sub menu.