Property Inspector for Pcbnew

Original report created by Xavi Torres (xtm)

It would very hepful when building the PCB (soldering components), to be
able to select components (Either in Schematic or PCB) with these two
methods:
 - One by one (By holding down the Shift key while clicking on the
component)
 - By parameters. For instance, select all components with value=10K and
Footprint=0603.

It also would be very hepful that, once multiple components are selected,
to be able to change (On all of them at once) any of their attributes:
Value, footprint, user field, name visibility in PCB, etc

Original tags: feature.request

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Xavi Torres (xtm) wrote:

I think is related to blueprints already discussed here
(http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/Hackathon-ehal)

Regards

Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote:

We have multiple selection, and in a very few cases multiple modification
(tracks and vias, for instance).

Jon Evans (craftyjon) wrote:

A find by parameters feature will be possible with the new object parameter
system, so we can probably tackle this for V6 if we have time.

Xavi Torres (xtm) wrote:

Hi Jeff,

>"We have multiple selection, and in a very few cases multiple modification
(tracks and vias, for >instance)."

Yes, but it works directly in PCB but, is there anyway to do the same from
schematic? I mean, select several compoenents in schematic and see these
components highlihted in PCB?

>"A find by parameters feature will be possible with the new object
parameter system, so we can >probably tackle this for V6 if we have time."

Great!

It's a bit difficult to see what actually is wished for, but for this:

select several compoenents in schematic and see these components highlihted in PCB?

see #2439 (closed).

Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote:

Hi Xavi,

Multiple selection will come for free in 6.0 (with the GAL canvas & toolset
for eeschema).  While we won’t get multiple editing for free, we should get
the cross-probing highlighting for free.

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 13 Mar 2018, at 11:11, Xavi Torres <xtm@tinet.cat> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
>> "We have multiple selection, and in a very few cases multiple
> modification (tracks and vias, for >instance)."
>
> Yes, but it works directly in PCB but, is there anyway to do the same
> from schematic? I mean, select several compoenents in schematic and see
> these components highlihted in PCB?
>
>> "A find by parameters feature will be possible with the new object
> parameter system, so we can >probably tackle this for V6 if we have
> time."
>
> Great!
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1640873
>
> Title:
>  Select and modify/highlight multiple components
>
> Status in KiCad:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  It would very hepful when building the PCB (soldering components), to be
able to select components (Either in Schematic or PCB) with these two
methods:
>   - One by one (By holding down the Shift key while clicking on the
component)
>   - By parameters. For instance, select all components with value=10K and
Footprint=0603.
>
>  It also would be very hepful that, once multiple components are
>  selected, to be able to change (On all of them at once) any of their
>  attributes: Value, footprint, user field, name visibility in PCB, etc
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1640873/+subscriptions

Xavi Torres (xtm) wrote:

That's good.
Many thanks

Best regards
Xavi

Gabriel Staples (ercaguy) wrote:

Thanks! Glad this one will get fixed. Any idea on an estimate of how long
it will take for 6.0.0-rc1 to come out? Are there full-time devs working on
KiCad now? How many?

Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote:

Not any time soon as we are still working on 5.1 due to issue with gtk3 on
linux.  I'm hoping we will release 5.1 before FOSDEM 2019 (first week in
February).  Once 5.1 is released the development branch will be open for v6
development.  Given the list of new features slated for v6, I suspect it
will be at least a year (most likely longer) until it is released.  There
are no full time KiCad developers.  There are only two paid part time
developers and another 5-6 volunteers that occasionally get paid to
implement some feature.  I think we do a heck of job given our manpower
limitations.

Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr) wrote:

Yes. The people here are doing a great job, mainly because of partial time
dedication (besides your own jobs).
As my partial dedication, I keep on track my reported issues and help the
community here with debug on Linux/GTK.@ Gabriel, keep this bug on track
reporting if it fix was not good, this is great help for the KiCad
community.

Anton (antonpupkov) wrote:

Good idea!

CeDeROM (cederom) wrote:

+1 here both for symbol and footprint editor :-)

Nuff (nufflee) wrote:

Hi everyone, I'd want to try to look into multiple modification but I'm not
sure if it is worth it if the new property system is going to be introduced
in v6. What does the timeline for this look like now (about a year later
from the last update in this discussion).
If this is still something worth implementing, does anyone mind sharing how
exactly would this be implemented, code structure wise?

Seth Hillbrand (sethh) wrote:

@ nuff- You should not address the issues in this domain yet.  It's a large
change/feature being worked on by Orson (one of the lead developers).  Once
it is in place, there will be room for improvement and you might check back
then.

In the meantime, if you are interested in getting some KiCad coding, there
are a number of open bugs marked "Starter" that will be very good to
address.  You can find them under

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bugs?field.tag=starter

Nuff (nufflee) wrote:

@ sethh I see, thank you for letting me know. Is there any ETA for this
feature or v6 rc1 in general?

Seth Hillbrand (sethh) wrote:

No, but you can subscribe to this bug report to receive notification when
it is closed.

The original comment mentions hand-assembly. As assembly is a very different task from PCB layout, I think it is probably unwise to optimize pcbnew for it, as a dedicated interface for it will always be superior.

There are already very nice tools available for hand assembly, such as OpenScope's InteractiveHtmlBom.

(of course, selecting and editing multiple components is still useful outside of this specific use case)

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