Placing or move by coordinates

If you choose Move - RMB - Options - Rotation Point you can choose where the component will be moved FROM.  After you select the component you wish to move you can simply type in the Command line the x,y coordinates of where you would like to place the component.  The syntax is x n.nn y n.nn   or you can simply type x n.nn n.nn    To get a list of all the coordinates of where the components are placed you can choose File - Export - Placement.  You will get options of what origin you would like to have reported.  Also, you can choose where you want the ASCII text placement file created using the Browse button.  An additional point about moving components - You can move a component incrementally by typing ix n.nn to move a component incrementally in the x direction and iy n.nn for the y direction. ix n.nn n.nn  will move it in both directions.  Hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply.

I brought this one on myself. I assigned some keys to perform certain functions in the "env" file. I had set "i" for zoom in and "x" for swap ends when routing. Since both of these keys are used for moving by coordinates, they didn't work. I commented them out of the env file and now I can move by coordinates. (But I can't zoom in using "I" or swap ends using "x".......... Need to assign some other keys to perform those functions now)

Tom

Tom,

I realize its more typing, but you can also use the "pick xx yy" command line to avoid conflict with your funckey assignments.

Roger

Tom, are you using a 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel at that end ?, Was curious because I also had assigned the zoom in and out functions to the I & O keys but those keys I rarely uses anymore because the mouse scrool wheel handles zoom in / Out and also Pan if I
de- press the mouse wheel.

Thanks Scott 

Hello all. I've been using a 3-button mouse (without the scrool wheel) for about 12 years and I love it.  By depressing the the middle button and moving in a diagonal from lower right to upper left (or vice versa) I'm able to zoom in or out in Editor.  I don't really like the scroll wheel because it tends to roll when I simply want to depress it.  I realize a lot of this is personal preference but I thought I would share mine anyway.  The other thing I wanted to mention to Tom was that if by "switching ends" when routing he means the "toggle" function I assigned that to the "t" hot key and I find it works great. Thanks for allowing me to input.