Text

Use the Text spreadsheet to view and edit board text.

Error Markers

Use the Error Markers spreadsheet to view error types and error marker locations. You can delete error markers from the board by deleting them in the spreadsheet.

Drills

Use the Drills spreadsheet to view and edit drill sizes, symbols, and tolerance.

Apertures

Use the Apertures spreadsheet to view and edit D-codes and their widths, heights, and shapes.

Color

Use the Color spreadsheet to view and edit the color of a layer or objects, or to make a layer visible or invisible. Display the Color spreadsheet by choosing the color toolbar button, or choose Colors from the Options menu.You can also use the Color spreadsheet to set color and visibility when post processing.

Post Process

Use the Post Process spreadsheet to view and edit the post processing settings for creating Gerber files and for printing or plotting output. Display the Post Process spreadsheet by choosing Post Process Settings from the Options menu, or choose Database Spreadsheets from the View menu, then choose Post Process.

Place Pass

Use the Place Pass spreadsheet to view and edit the settings (iterations, attempts, and maximum clusters) for the six placement operations (assign clusters, proximity place, adjust components, place clusters, swap components, and swap pins) Layout Plus uses during autoplacement.

The query window

The query window provides detailed data for an object selected in either the design window or in a spreadsheet. When you click on a keyword (marked with quotation marks) in the query window, information about that item appears in the query window, and the item is highlighted on the board.

If you click on a location (the X and Y coordinates given in brackets) in the query window, the location is highlighted on the board and marked with an "X". By placing the query cursor (shaped like a Q) in the query window and pressing the J key, an appropriate edit dialog box appears, so that you can edit data. By placing the query cursor in the query window and pressing the T key, an appropriate search dialog box (the Find and Select Item dialog box or the Find Coordinate or Reference Designator dialog box) appears.

If you enter the name of an object and choose the OK button in the search dialog box, the information about the object appears in the query window and the object is highlighted on the board.

 

You can display pop-up menus in the design window, library manager, and spreadsheets by pressing the right mouse button. Their commands are specific to the tool you are using. For instance, if you display a pop-up menu in the Design Window with a component selected, the commands will be different than if you had no component selected.

To access pop-up menus press the right mouse button.