Properties tab
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Dockable panel: Properties |
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Menu: Modify > Properties |
The dockable panel contains a specific tab allowing you to display the
properties of the selected element. The properties can be graphical properties
(stored in the graphical entities) or data stored in the electrical project
database or the software database.
This element can be:
A electrical project page
(in the Pages tab).
A component (in the Components tab).
Any graphical electrical
objects (wire, symbol, location and function outline in the graphical
area).
Any basic entities (line, circle, arc or texts in the graphical
area).
A symbol (Graphical edition mode).
A 2D footprint (Graphical edition mode).
A title block (Graphical edition mode).
The object properties can be displayed in a specific dialog box.
electrical project elements
The electrical project elements
group all elements depending on the electrical project, such as electrical
project pages, components or electrical entities.
When you select a electrical project
element, specific icons appears to edit its properties.
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Click this button to edit the electrical properties of the
selected element. |
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Validates the modifications done in the properties tab. |
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Cancels the modifications done in the properties tab. |
In edition mode, several data cannot
be modified because they are managed by the software or by the electrical
project configuration.
This feature accepts multi-selection
but you must select elements of the same type (for example, you cannot
select a symbol and a drawing). When you select several elements, such
as different type of wires, only common properties are displayed.
In multi-selection mode, a grey
cell indicates that the data of the selected elements are different. In
edition mode, the grey color is replaced by purple.
Page elements
The Properties
tab displays the properties of each electrical project element (electrical
project, book, folder, drawings, data files) selected in the Pages
tab. If you select different types of elements (such as folders
and drawings), new tabs appear to sort the elements.
For example, if you select a folder
and a drawing, two tabs are displayed. You can get access to the folder
properties from the Folder tab
and to the drawing properties from the Drawing
tab.
Component elements
As the page elements, when you
select several different types of elements in the Components
tab, new tabs appear in the Properties
tab corresponding to each type of component (location, component, terminal
strip).
Graphical entities
To edit the properties of a selected
element in the graphical area, you must select one element or only elements
of a same type (multi-selection). If you select several type of entities,
only the Graphical properties
tab appears and you cannot change the electrical properties.
The wire properties are not available
when the Deferred
mode is activated.
Some specific tabs appear, corresponding
to the selected entity type. For example, when you select a wire, several
tabs can be displayed corresponding to all settings you can find on this
wire (equipotential, cable, cable core, wire style).
The Graphical
properties tab displays the graphical settings of the selected
elements. Some of these settings cannot be changed because they are managed
by the configurations. On the top of this tab, you can find a list, grouping
the selected entities, by type. On a multi-selection, the tab displays
the common data.
Software elements
The Properties tab displays
the settings of the basic graphical entities like lines, circles or texts.
It also displays the data of elements stored in the Management
dialog boxes (symbols, title blocks and 2D footprints).
Basic entities
On a basic entity selection, only the Graphical
properties tab is available. If you select different type of entities,
these are grouped in the list on the top of the tab. The settings displayed
are those of the selected group or the entire selection. When you change
the properties of elements, they are automatically updated in the graphical
area.
Management dialog box elements
In graphical Management dialog
boxes, when you edit an element, like a symbol, a 2D footprint or a title
block, the Properties tab displays
the data of the selected level.
For a symbol, you can access to the properties of the symbol, the circuit,
the connection point and the attribute. For a 2D footprint and a title
block, you can also access to their properties and the attribute properties.
When the selected element has a graphical representation (basic graphical
entity, attribute and connection point), the Graphical
properties tab is available.