Latest 6.0 testing on Windows
Am I missing something, I have tightly packed SMD parts and silkscreen references are on top of other components.
It seems much harder than on V5 to grab the reference to move it. I end up having to move the other parts out of the way now
I always use “toggle interactive layers” this way I make sure I can only move the components of the layer I’m standing on.
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Selection in busy areas definitely changed from 5 to 6. I assume there’s a good reason for it but I agree that it feels harder to pick up things like text objects. I use “high contrast” mode way more now - hit H to toggle between all layers active, all but one dimmed, and all but one hidden. When I’m adjusting silkscreen I tend to go to dimmed view, then you can see everything else but only interact with the silks
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this is what i do:
when the board is “young” there will be a lot of rapid footprint moving around, track routing, flipping… etc… i call this process “feng-shui” so i make a preset for it:
basically turn off the “Footprint Text” there and save this as a preset
when the board is nearly done (footprints in place, tracks routed, etc…) it’s time to feng-shui the RefDes and the values on the Fab layer
for that i use a different scheme:
Refdes: turn off the Cu and Fab layers, keep the pads/vias visible, select the relevant SilkScreen layer and go to high-contrast (H) mode, if it’s the back-side - also use the “mirror” view
Fab: just go to high-contrast (H) mode on the Fab layer
and unfortunately, these wonderful presets happen to be saved in the project
i thought they are global
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Silkscreen is special-cased to be a bit like high-contrast mode even when you’re not in high-contrast mode. (Of course the silk layer does have to be your current layer for this to work.)
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Thanks everybody, “Toggle Inactive Layers” works for me.
Interesting! I’d noticed that behavior but never realized it was an intentional special case.
Before I tried the Toggle…, I could not select silkscreen Ref text on top of other components at all
Can you post the board (or a test board that exhibits the behaviour)? (Or you can email it to me at ----.)
I cannot reproduce this now, no Toggle needed so long as the silkscreen layer is selected.
Yesterday I could even hide all layers except silkscreen, try to select the Ref and watch the underlying resistor pads become visible and grab focus.
I suggest you do something to hide your email address or I can hide the entire post
Huh. Odd…
(I’m not too worried about my email address. It’s easy enough to find out there. But no sense making it easy…)
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