Visibility of components origins

[sergeQJMQW]

In new method of selection of the components origins are not necessary.

How to turn display of it off, since layer selection of origins is not exist anymore?

[oleksandr_velihorskyi]

Good point! I think it will be a good option to hide components' origins when a "new" method of selection is used. In fact, for me, these small crosses look annoying.

[Pieter.Jan.Van.de.Maele]

If you unselect "Components" in the selection filter (and thus turn off selectability of the components) the origins will disappear. The visibility of them is tied to wether they are selectable or not. 

[sergeQJMQW]

Is it possible to be able to select the components in the "new way" and not see the origin?

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @sergeQJMQW,

This is not possible, the cross hair is still useful since it shows you the reference point when doing precise placements through the inspector or scripts.

If there is a practical reason, other than aesthetics for not seeing the origin we would definitely be interested in knowing it.

Best Regards,

[sergeQJMQW]

Hi, the practical reason: to make the working environment less busy and get rid of the habit to look for the origin to move or select the component or name or text.

In another words - increase productivity. 

[dperotti2EZ8U]

Practical Reason 1- 1 month ago no problem, now because the origin markers show up as false drill hits in my FAB drawing.
Practical Reason 2- I'm trying to remove drill hits from a FAB drawing, so I can re-generate the drawing. Its much easier to delete the old drill hits with a group select, but when I try to do a group select, I can not avoid also capturing the origins where are not deletable. This was not issue a month or so ago, I dont know why this is a problem now.

[dperotti2EZ8U]

Hello, 

The "filter components" solution no longer appears to be possible/isn't working for me. Maybe I am doing something wrong? Can you please share a screen shot?

[dperotti2EZ8U]

@Pieter.Jan.Van.de.Maele 

The "filter components" solution no longer appears to be possible/isn't working for me. Maybe I am doing something wrong? Can you please share a screen shot?

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @dperotti2EZ8U ,

I hope you're doing well. I just tried it and it works just fine. See screenshot. Look at my selection filter settings.

[davepQDY77]

Thank you, that does appear to be working for me now.

[niahlantrix]

Because I print the board directly and use toner transfer to make my board rather than exporting gerber files.  The crosses show up in my print so my board won't work.  In eagle I could disable visibility of "Tplace" and they would go away, but that's not an option in the "new and improved Fusion 360 that I pay 85 dollars a month for...

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @niahlantrix,

Still possible just in a different way. Go to the selection filter and disable component selection, you'll see the cross hairs go away.

I'm sure you are aware of this, but just in case, there are a lot of good options of low cost PCB manufacturing. For example, oshpark charges $5 a square inch of PCB for 3 copies of your PCB. Perhaps that is not an option for you or you like making PCBs at home but I thought I would mention it.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

[niahlantrix]

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I did figure it out yes, but I
still greatly prefer Eagle, it was much more intuitive.

Kind regards,
Randal Scot Nichols

[mhjerde]

set Option.ShowPartOrigins 0; no longer works, it seems?

I am creating drawings for the PCBA process by exporting PDFs (automatically through the CAM processor).
The problem with the components origins being turned on permanently is that they obscure the part IDs. See attached file.

[jorge_garcia]

Hello @mhjerde ,

I hope you're doing well. The way origins are displayed has changed, even if the SET command doesn't work the above selection filter process should work. Can you confirm that's the case?

The selection filter can be controlled through the CLI so if you are trying to automate this you can still do it.

Let me know if that's the case.

Best Regards,

[mhjerde]

Hi
Sorry for being unclear. When I said "automatically" I was not referring to scripts. I meant that I have set up the cam processor to create a package of files including PDF assembly drawings 

I appears that a recent upgrade has introduced some additional surprises. Compare the screenshot of the CAM processor with the file that is actually created. As you can see he CAM processor is set to include the tDocu layer and the outline. 
The PDF that  is generated includes all layers, breaking the image generating feature.

[jorge_garcia]

Hello @mhjerde,

I hope you're doing well. Thank you for clarifying, so just to make sure I understand you correctly, no matter what layers you pick the exported image contains all of the layers? If that's the case, that's a serious issue and I'll report it.

In the meantime you can workaround this issue by using the EXPORT IMAGE command, with only the layers you want to output displayed.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,