Filtering for hierarchy block names in PCB Layout

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LeFish
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Filtering for hierarchy block names in PCB Layout

#1 Post by LeFish » 04 Nov 2022, 02:53

Hi there!

I am a heavy user of hierarchy blocks. They are awesome to make use of a structured, well reusable design.

What I miss is a feature to easily group components within the same hierarchy block physically on the layout.

When I transfer from schematic to pcb all the components are arranged, but not grouped into hierarchy-blocks as far as I could see.

It would be neat to group them easily based on their hierarchy block name structure and maybe even show or hide them according to some user defined criteria (i. e. hierarchy block name scheme)

One simple way to implement this somehwat is to be able to search for hierarchy block names and mark all components matching the search. Then one could drag them somewhere and gorupd them.

You could do this by adding "Hierarchy Block Name" to the "Find Object" function.

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Thanks!

Best regards
LeFish

Alex
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Joined: 13 Jun 2010, 23:43

Re: Filtering for hierarchy block names in PCB Layout

#2 Post by Alex » 06 Nov 2022, 20:02

Thank you for the feature request, we will consider your suggestion.

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