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How to make Net Alias sort in schematic order instead of Ascending/descending inside Property Editor (disable automatic sort)?

waldo15b
waldo15b over 1 year ago

A few months ago I was working on a schematic project and I swear I was able to select a number of nets (aliases) and when I right clicked to open the Properties editor, the signals would be listed in the order they appear in the schematic reading from top to bottom. This allowed me to easily change names and do pin swaps using an excel spreadsheet.

Recently after the last few hotfixes, I have noticed that no matter what I do the nets will always be listed in alphabetical order, either ascending or descending, which complicates my ability to do the pin swaps and verify the new order is what I want, so I would like to disable this automatic sorting if possible. Even after I do the name changes, the signals will re-sort immediately into ascending/descending order making it virtually impossible for me to verify the new name assignments are correct unless I expand the information in the flat nets tab and check the Net ID association

Below is an example of how the net names show in the schematic and how they are automatically sorted in the Property editor. I would like the signals to be listed as shown in the schematic.

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  • rg13
    0 rg13 over 1 year ago

    Which hotfix of the tool you are using?

    I tried the same on 17.2 S083 and 17.4 S038 and found the same behavior on both the releases.

    If you want me to check on 22.1 and 23.1, let me know.

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  • rg13
    0 rg13 over 1 year ago in reply to rg13

    On both the releases, it shows nets in alphabetical order:

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  • waldo15b
    0 waldo15b over 1 year ago in reply to rg13

    I have 23.1, I believe Hotfix 4 (23.1 S004).

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  • waldo15b
    0 waldo15b over 1 year ago in reply to rg13

    It is possible that is the configuration by default and I simply imagined the non-sort option as I was manually doing the changes. Thanks for looking into it!

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  • rg13
    +1 rg13 over 1 year ago in reply to waldo15b

    I have 23.1 S003 and again behavior is same. It shows nets in alphabetical order.

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