topic Re: Suggestion: Find in EAGLE Forum

Suggestion: Find

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:10:33 GMT

I should be able to search for a text string, or view a list of nets/components/etc.

If I want to find "R13" I could mean the resistor, the BGA pin on an FPGA. There aren't usually that many "R13" items, so a simple CTRL-F find would be most useful.

Re: Suggestion: Find

rachaelATWH4 — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:10:53 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I should be able to search for a text string, or view a list of nets/components/etc.

If I want to find "R13" I could mean the resistor, the BGA pin on an FPGA. There aren't usually that many "R13" items, so a simple CTRL-F find would be most useful.

There is a search command already which does this in the menus.

Tools -> Search....

It opens a dialog for you to specify your search and what object types it should apply to.

It's a ULP which it launches so you can also run it from the command line with:

RUN find

Which you could also assign to Ctrl+F if you want a quick way to access it.

Best Regards,

Rachael

Re: Suggestion: Find

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:43:20 GMT

Ok that's weird, I tried 'Help find' and nothing came up. I should have
looked harder, sheesh. My bad.

Re: Suggestion: Find

rachaelATWH4 — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:28:46 GMT

You are right, the help doesn't really cover things like that properly, in fact it doesn't really cover the main GUI windows very well at all. I'm not sure if the PDF manual has any more detail there, I haven't looked at it for years. However, the search function is provided by a ULP and there isn't currently any help for any of the built in ULP either. This is just one of those times when you just have to search the menus to see if you can find it....

Re: Suggestion: Find

jorge_garcia — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:24:43 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I hope you're doing well. In addition to the find.ulp that Rachael mentioned you can also use the show command to find items.

For example:
Show @ R13

Will highlight and draw a rectangle around R13.

Show ~ GND

Will list on the schematic every sheet where the GND net appears.

These tricks can help cover some of the use cases where you might normally use the find ulp.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,