Need help routing a hierarchical schema

[frank63]

Good evening
I finished my hierarchical schematics (10 hierarchical pages), no errors, and I just imported it into the PCB editor.
I root manually, and there I would like to know how to easily find the blocks, because I have the impression that it is really all mixed up? (I have searching some components) reorganization manually or is there a more practical trick?
Thank you

[ML9104]

@frank63

I root manually

What does that mean?

[bertrand_meneroud]

you can select a block of part in the schematic editor.
And it selects all these parts in the PCB editor.

[eelik]

There are several ways to select all footprints of a hierarchical sheet. From the schematic, in the context menu of the sheet box. Inside a sheet, just use box selection; this requires cross-probing enabled in PCB Editor Display Options in Preferences. Or in the PCB Editor, context menu on a footprint → Select → Items in…

When the footprints are selected, context menu → Pack and Move Footprints.

[frank63]

@bertrand_meneroud @eelik
Yes Indeed I just tested by selecting in the diagrams, it’s good.
@ML9104

@ML9104

What does that mean?

I don’t use an automatic router, I make my “hair” lighter by removing GND, and I place my wires and vias manually, and I adjust little by little, until the components are tightened
Is there a better method?
thank you

[ML9104]

Ah, get you. You meant “route”, not “root”. Now I understand.

[eelik]

Yes, it helps if you pronounce ‘route’ ‘route’, not ‘route’. Then it won’t be confused with ‘route’.

[retiredfeline]

You need the IPA. We pronounce route [ˈraʊt] because [ˈɹut] is a rude word here.

[eelik]

@retiredfeline

a rude word

You mean ‘roude’?

Too late, should be sleeping already…

[ML9104]

Just to calm things down, but I was really confused. “root” means a lot of things, specially in the Linux/UNIX world.
I thought the OP might be referring to the hierachical “root sheet” or something like that.

[frank63]

@ alls
sorry for my English
I think the correct syntax is: rooting PCB tracks
With my apologies if I offended anyone.
Far from me…

To return to my initial question, is my method good?

[jmk]

@frank63

I think the correct syntax is: rooting PCB tracks

No, it is routing PCB tracks.
No apologies needed. Root is an interesting term in Australian slang. As Retiredfeline writes; it is a rude word, but the past tense, as in “my PCB is rooted” means the PCB is utterly and completely beyond repair: only suitable to place in the rubbish bin. Fair dinkum!

[paulvdh]

I’m Dutch myself. Never knew “rooted” has rude implications in some English dialects. As far as I know “Root” has a meaning of roots of plants, and extrapolated meanings such as the origin of a family (family roots), or having a lot of control over things (Being root on Linux / unix). And the orinal post confused me too.

Route is a chain of connections, possibly over roads. For more look it up in a dictionary. I had a paper version of Collins / Cobuild once but it went in the bin because flipping though all that paper takes so much time, and there are a lot of dictionaries on the internet.