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Highlight a set of air wires in board layout

nay_lister_uk — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 13:50:49 GMT

Is there any way of highlighting all air wires in a net in board layout? to help with layout.

For example say that I want to highlight all of the air wires that are part of the net N$1 for example how do I do this.

Thanks

Re: Highlight a set of air wires in board layout

one-of-the-robs — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 13:54:08 GMT

@nay_lister_uk wrote:

Is there any way of highlighting all air wires in a net in board layout? to help with layout.

For example say that I want to highlight all of the air wires that are part of the net N$1 for example how do I do this.

Try "show N$1" in the command prompt

Re: Highlight a set of air wires in board layout

nay_lister_uk — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 14:14:36 GMT

Thank you Rob I will give that a try. I thought some command but was unsure what to use as the command.

Re: Highlight a set of air wires in board layout

mark9XJEG — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:48:32 GMT

Another way to do it is to use the RATSNEST command

enter RATSNEST ! *

This will turn off all of the airwires.

then enter RATSNEST n$1

This will turn back on the airwires for just the n$1 net. You can show multiple nets by putting spaces between net names, or by using the wildcard character '*' if you are thoughtful with how you name your nets - for example if you have a databus with nets named data0, data1 etc, you can enter

RATSNEST data* to show the whole bus

Re: Highlight a set of air wires in board layout

nay_lister_uk — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 03:40:10 GMT

Thank you