PCB Wiring Card Reverse Engineering Menu

The menus are located at the top of the Layout area when Pcb wiring card Reverse engineering. Most, but not all, of their functions are also available from the keyboard. Similarly, some functions are only achievable through the keyboard or command entry. Some menu entries such as ‘center layout’ in the Screen menu require a certain cross hair position from Pcb wiring card Reverse engineering.

In this case a prompt message will popup at the bottom of the screen with wording similar to the following: move pointer to the appropriate screen position and press a button Any mouse button will do the job, whereas any key except the arrow (cursor) keys will cancel the operation. If it seems like the menu hasn’t done what you expected, check to see if it is waiting for the position click before Pcb wiring card Reverse engineering.

Pressing Btn3 in the Layout area also pops up a menu with many of the most common operations (except when you’re in the midst of drawing a line or arc). When a choice in the Btn3 popup menu needs a cross hair position if Pcb wiring card Reverse engineering, it uses the position where the cross hair was when Btn3 was pressed. For example, to get detailed information on an object, place the cross hair over the object, press Btn3, then choose ‘object report’. If you pop up the Btn3 menu but don’t want to take any of the actions, click on one of the headers in the Menu before Pcb wiring card Reverse engineering.

After Pcb wiring card Reverse Engineering begin, This menu offers a choice of loading, saving and printing data, saving connection information to a file or quitting the application. Most of the entries in the File menu are self explanatory if Pcb wiring card Reverse Engineering. Selecting ‘print layout’ pops up a printer control dialog. A selection of several device drivers is available from the printer control dialog.

Presently PostScript, encapsulated PostScript, and GerberX are supported. The GerberX driver produces all of the files necessary to have the board professionally manufactured when Pcb wiring card Reverse Engineering. The connection saving features in the File menu produce outputs in an arcane format that is not too useful. They do not produce netlist files.


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