Use the Copy Location Code, Copy Installation Code, Copy Mount Code, and Copy Group Code tools to do mass copies to all the components you select.
These values extract into reports and may be useful for sorting or grouping. Copied values appear on the target footprints as an attribute value, if an attribute is present, or as invisible Xdata.
- Click
and choose one of the following:
- Find Copy Installation Code
- Find Copy Location Code
- Find Copy Mount Code
- Find Copy Group Code
- In the Copy Installation\Location\Mount\Group to components dialog box, select the code names you want to copy.
- Enter a value for the code:
- Pick Master: Select a panel component from the drawing carrying the desired values for the all the codes you want to copy.
- Enter a value in the edit box.
- Drawing: Select a value from a list of values used on the active drawing.
- Project: Select a value from a list of values used in the project.
- Pick: Select a panel component from the drawing carrying the desired value for the specific code.
- Click OK.
Note: Schematic components only update installation or location values when the component carries an installation or location attribute respectively. Panel components update with either of the two data categories whether target attributes are present or not.