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How to unfix / delete a module outline?

avant
avant over 2 years ago

I have a customer board file with a rectangle located very far away from the board outline. The rectangle is part of a module.

This causes the board file size to be 160MB.

Show element:

< MODULE >

  Name: CR_UNNAMED_6
  Type: MODULE
  Definition: UNNAMED
  origin-xy:    (15759.92 11794.41) 
  rotation:  0.000 degrees
  Logic derived from: Schematic.

  Members: 
    Shapes and rectangles:   1 

I cannot delete the module because it is fixed.
I try to edit the module and it does not show fixed.
It does not show up in disband group.

How can I delete this rectangle?
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    0 steve over 2 years ago

    The rectangle is the extents of the module (all text like device type etc) so you should be able to hover over the module and use right click - Disband  The disband will remove the rectangle and disband the group. The alternative is to open the module file itself, turn on all layers and reduce the text sizes etc to reduce the size of the rectangle.

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    0 steve over 2 years ago

    The rectangle is the extents of the module (all text like device type etc) so you should be able to hover over the module and use right click - Disband  The disband will remove the rectangle and disband the group. The alternative is to open the module file itself, turn on all layers and reduce the text sizes etc to reduce the size of the rectangle.

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    0 avant over 2 years ago in reply to steve

    Thanks Steve! Worked great!

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