What's Good About ADW’s Bulk Editing? Check out the 16.5 Release and See!

The 16.5 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) release provides bulk editing support. This is a huge time saver for librarians! The bulk editing provides you with the ability to operate on a set of parts or models.

Read on for more details …

In the ADW Library Workbench, when you Search by Classification, you can now:    

• Select multiple parts or models
• Edit-All
• Check-out
  • Edit property values in list
  • Add new part rows
  • Edit linked properties (any linked model or property)
  • JEDEC_TYPE
  • PPLs
  • EMBEDDED_PLACEMENT
  • etc.
• Import /Export  CSV
• Check-in All
  • Comments Apply to All option
• Release
  • Verify/Release All

Search by classification:

Select parts from results list
RMB – Edit All:

Select Parts Node
RMB – Check-out:

Edits may be made on groups of models

• Edit comments, etc.
• To check-in the group of models, it is advised to turn off rules for simple edits, otherwise check-in individually

Edit Field Values

• Ctrl/C copy
• Ctrl/V paste

RMB menu items for easier and fast editing -

• Duplicate - Duplicates an existing row
• New Row – Adds new empty row
• Delete Row
• Export part data to a csv file, then import the csv to Excel, edit the data, then import the updated csv

Edit/Add Associations

• Schematic models
• Footprint models
• Alternate Footprints
• Data sheets

I look forward to your feedback!

Jerry “GenPart” Grzenia