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Simple things?

mvonahnen

 I am new to Allegro PCB with most of my experience being in the Protel design area.  A couple of very simple things to do in Protel seem to be impossible in Allegro (at least so far to me).  I could use some help with these:

1. Selecting a component in the PCB editor by refdes

2.  Actually getting the autoplacement to do anything

3.  Finding a "real life" design example in the tutorials and documentation

 My main issue is #1, since I gave up on #2 and moved the parts manually.  I am surprised at the complexity of the user interface on this tool and was looking for a quick reference guide or similar.

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  • mvonahnen

     Thanks, I fumbled through and found the select feature. The pan feature I would have never found.

     Just for my information, is this documented anywhere?  I have found the help documentation to be very poor, even by Protel (Altium) standards, and that is pretty bad.  I like to the tool, but the user interface is easily the worst of all of the vendors I have used

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  • mvonahnen

     Thanks, I fumbled through and found the select feature. The pan feature I would have never found.

     Just for my information, is this documented anywhere?  I have found the help documentation to be very poor, even by Protel (Altium) standards, and that is pretty bad.  I like to the tool, but the user interface is easily the worst of all of the vendors I have used

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