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<h1>EDITOR COMMANDS</h1><br>
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<p>
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Most editing commands are available in the menu, but definitely key-bindings and Mouse actions
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are the most effective way to build and arrange schematics, so you should learn at least the
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most important ones.
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<h2> INTUITIVE INTERFACE </h2>
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<p> This is a recent interface that uses less keyboard commands and more mouse actions
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It is therefore possible to click and drag objects directly and do many more actions
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by just using mouse actions. This interface is enabled by enabling the menu checkbutton:<br>
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<kbd>Options -> Intuitive click & Drag Interface</kbd><br>
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Or by adding the following line:<br>
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<kbd>set intuitive_interface 1</kbd><br>
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in your <kbd>xschemrc</kbd> file.
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<p> The following cheatsheet image shows the intuitive_interface commands</p>
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<img src="intuitive_interface_cheatsheet.svg">
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The standard interface is described below. All below description applies also if
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intuitive_interface is enabled.
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<h2> STANDARD INTERFACE </h2>
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<p>
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The basic principle in XSCHEM is that first you select something in the circuit then you
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decide what to do with the selection.
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For example, if you need to change an object property you first select it (mouse click) and then
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you press the edit property (<kbd>'q'</kbd>) key.
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It you need to move together multiple objects you select them (by area or using multiple mouse
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clicks with the <kbd>Shift</kbd> key), then you press the move (<kbd>'m'</kbd>) key.
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<h3> EDITOR COMMAND CHEATSHEET</h3>
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<p>
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This list is available in XSCHEM in the <kbd>Help</kbd> menu
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</p>
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<pre class="code" style="height: 600px;">
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XSCHEM MOUSE BINDINGS
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LeftButton Clear selection and select a graphic object
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(line, rectangle, symbol, wire)
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if clicking on blank area: clear selection
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shift + LeftButton Select without clearing previous selection
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ctrl + LeftButton if an 'url' or 'tclcommand' property is defined on
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selected instance open the url or execute the
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tclcommand
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LeftButton drag Select objects by area, clearing previous selection
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"[shift] left button drag" and "[shift] ctrl-left
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button drag" commands are swapped if enable_stretch
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is set.
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Ctrl + LeftButton drag Select objects by area to perform a
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subsequent 'stretch' move operation
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shift + LeftButton drag Select objects by area, without clearing
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previous selection
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Shift + Select objects by area without unselecting
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Ctrl + LeftButton drag to perform a subsequent 'stretch' move operation
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Shift + RightButton Select all connected wires/labels/pins
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Ctrl + RightButton Select all connected wires/labels/pins, stopping at
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wire junctions
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Alt + RightButton Cut wire at mouse position (creates 2 adjacent wires)
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aligns the cut point to current snap setting.
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Alt + Shift + RightButton
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Cut wire at mouse position (creates 2 adjacent wires)
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does not align cut point to current snap setting.
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Mouse Wheel Zoom in / out
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MidButton drag Pan viewable area
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Alt + LeftButton Unselect selected object
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Alt + LeftButton drag
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Unselect objects by area
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RightButton drag Zoom area
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RightButton Release Context menu
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LeftButton Double click Terminate Polygon placement
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Edit object attributes
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XSCHEM KEY BINDINGS
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- BackSpace Back to parent schematic
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- Delete Delete selected objects
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- Insert Insert element from library
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shift Insert Open persistent insert symbol dialog box
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- Print Scrn Grab screen area
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- Escape Abort, redraw, unselect
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ctrl Enter Confirm closing dialog boxes
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- Down Move down
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- Left Move right
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- Right Move left
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- Up Move up
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ctrl Left Previous tab (if tabbed interface enabled)
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ctrl Right Next tab (if tabbed interface enabled)
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- '\' Toggle fullscreen
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- '!' Break selected wires at any wire or component pin
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connection
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- ' ' Pan schematic
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- ' ' When drawing lines or wires toggle between
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manhattan H-V, manhattan V-H or oblique path.
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- '#' Highlight components with duplicated name (refdes)
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ctrl '#' Rename components with duplicated name (refdes)
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- '5' View only probes
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ctrl '0-9' set current layer (0-9)
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'0' set selected net or label to logic value '0'
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'1' set selected net or label to logic value '1'
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'2' set selected net or label to logic value 'X'
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'3' set selected net or label to logic value 'Z'
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'4' toggle selected net or label: 1->gt;0, 0->gt;1, X->gt;X
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- 'a' Make symbol from pin list of current schematic
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ctrl 'a' Select all
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shift 'A' Toggle show netlist
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- 'b' Merge file
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Shift 'B' Edit/add header/license metadata to the schematic/symbol file.
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ctrl 'b' Toggle show text in symbol
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alt 'b' Toggle show symbol details / only bounding boxes
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- 'c' Copy selected objects, 'c' and 'alt-c' commands are swapped if enable_stretch is set
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Alt 'c' Copy selected objects, insert wires when separating touching instance pins/wires
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ctrl 'c' Save to clipboard
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shift 'C' Start arc placement
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shift+ctrl 'C' Start circle placement
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ctrl 'd' Delete files
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- 'd' Unselect selected object under the mouse pointer
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shift 'D' Unselect selected objects by area
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ctrl 'e' Back to parent schematic
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- 'e' Descend to schematic
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alt+shift 'E' Edit selected schematic in a new window, new xschem process
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alt 'e' Edit selected schematic in a new window
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'\' Toggle Full screen
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shift 'F' Horizontal flip selected objects
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alt 'f' Horizontal flip selected objects around their anchor points
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ctrl 'f' Find/select by substring or regexp
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- 'f' Full zoom
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shift+ctrl 'F' Zoom full selected elements
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shift 'G' Double snap factor
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- 'g' Half snap factor
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ctrl 'g' Set snap factor
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alt 'g' Hilight selected nets and send to gaw waveform viewer
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- 'h' Constrained horizontal move/copy of objects
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alt 'h' create symbol pins from schematic pins
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ctrl 'h' Follow http link or execute command (url, tclcommand properties)
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shift 'H' Attach net labels to selected instance
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ctrl+shift 'H' Make schematic and symbol from selected components
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- 'i' Descend to symbol
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ctrl 'i' Open persistent insert symbol dialog box
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shift 'I' Insert symbol
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alt 'i' Edit selected symbol in a new window
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alt+shift 'J' Create labels with 'i' prefix from highlighted nets/pins
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alt 'j' Create labels without 'i' prefix from highlighted nets/pins
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ctrl 'j' Create ports from highlight nets
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alt+ctrl 'j' Print list of highlighted nets/pins with label expansion
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shift 'J' create xplot plot file for ngspice in simulation directory
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- 'j' Print list of highlighted nets/pins
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- 'k' Hilight selected nets
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ctrl+shift 'K' highlight net passing through elements with 'propag' property set on pins
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shift 'K' Unhilight all nets
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ctrl 'k' Unhilight selected nets
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alt 'k' Select all nets attached to selected wire / label / pin.
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- 'l' Start line
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shift 'L' Toggle orthogonal routing (automatic H-V or V-H)
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ctrl 'l' Make schematic view from selected symbol
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alt+shift 'l' add lab_wire.sym to schematic
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alt 'l' add lab_pin.sym to schematic
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shift 'O' Toggle Light / Dark colorscheme
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shift+ctrl 'O' Load most recent file
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ctrl 'o' 0pen file
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- 'm' Move selected objects. 'm' and 'ctrl-m' commands are swapped if enable_stretch is set
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ctrl 'm' Move selected objects, stretching wires attached to them
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Alt 'm' Move selected objects, insert wires when separating touching instance pins/wires
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shift 'M' Move selected objects, insert wires when separating touching instance pins/wires
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ctrl+shift 'M' Move selected objects, combine Shift-M and Ctrl-m
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shift 'N' Top level only netlist
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- 'n' Hierarchical Netlist
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ctrl 'n' Clear schematic
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ctrl+shift 'N' Clear symbol
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shift 'O' Toggle Light / Dark colorscheme
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ctrl 'o' Load schematic
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- 'p' Place polygon. Operation ends by placing last point over first.
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alt 'p' Add symbol pin
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shift 'P' Pan view area
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alt 'q' Edit schematic file (dangerous!)
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- 'q' Edit prop
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shift 'Q' Edit prop with vim
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ctrl+shift 'Q' View prop
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ctrl 'q' Exit XSCHEM
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alt 'r' Rotate objects around their anchor points
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shift 'R' Rotate
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- 'r' Start rect
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shift 'S' Change element order
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ctrl+shift 'S' Save as schematic
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- 's' run simulation (asks confirmation)
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ctrl 's' Save schematic
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alt 's' Reload current schematic from disk
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ctrl+alt 's' Save-as symbol
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- 't' Place text
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shift 'T' Toggle *_ignore flag on selected instances
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alt 'u' Align to current grid selected objects
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ctrl 'u' Unselect attached floater objects
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shift 'U' Redo
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- 'u' Undo
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- 'v' Constrained vertical move/copy of objects
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shift 'V' Vertical flip selected objects
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alt 'v' Vertical flip selected objects around their anchor point
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ctrl 'v' Paste from clipboard
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ctrl+shift 'V' Toggle spice/vhdl/verilog netlist
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- 'w' Place wire
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ctrl 'w' close current schematic
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shift 'W' Place wire, snapping to closest pin or net endpoint
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ctrl 'x' Cut into clipboard
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- 'x' New cad session
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shift 'X' Highlight discrepancies between object ports and attached nets
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alt 'x' Toggle draw crosshair at mouse position
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- 'y' Toggle stretching wires
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- 'z' Zoom box
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shift 'Z' Zoom in
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ctrl 'z' Zoom out
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- '?' Help
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- '&' Join / break / collapse wires
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shift '*' Postscript/pdf print
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ctr+shift '*' Xpm/png print
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alt+shift '*' Svg print
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ctrl '-' Test mode: change line width
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ctrl '+' Test mode: change line width
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- '_' Toggle change line width
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- '%' Toggle draw grid
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ctrl '=' Toggle fill rectangles
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<h3>KEYBIND CUSTOMIZATION</h3>
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<p>
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changes to default keybindings may be placed in the <kbd>~/.xschem/xschemrc</kbd> file as in the following examples:
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</p>
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<pre class="code">
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## replace Ctrl-d with Escape (so you won't kill the program :-))
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set replace_key(Control-d) Escape
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## swap w and W keybinds; Always specify Shift for capital letters
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set replace_key(Shift-W) w
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set replace_key(w) Shift-W
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</pre><br>
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<a id="select"><h3>SELECT OBJECTS</h3></a>
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<p>
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Objects can be selected by clicking the left mouse button when the pointer is very close to the object.
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For rectangle objects the best point to select it is the internal side, close to one of the corners.
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More objects can be selected by pressing the <kbd>Shift</kbd> key and clicking another object.
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Once objects are selected they can be copied (<kbd>c</kbd> key), moved (<kbd>m</kbd> key), deleted
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(<kbd>Delete</kbd> key) or attributes changed (<kbd>q</kbd> key).<br>
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Objects can also be selected by area, by dragging with the left mouse button pressed a rectangle around the objects
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you want to select.
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</p>
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<img src="commands9.png">
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<a id="resize"><h3>RESIZE OBJECTS</h3></a>
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<p>
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All Xschem base objects can be resized.
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For lines, rectangles, polygons you need to drag the mouse with left button pressed and Ctrl key pressed
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over one vertex/endpoint.
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</p>
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<img src="commands6.png">
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<p>
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After releasing the mouse button the object will become selected
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and a subsequent move operation (<kbd>m</kbd> key) will move the selected vertex/endpoint.
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</p>
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<img src="commands7.png">
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<p>
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More objects can be resized. You can add vertex/endpoints by pressing Ctrl and Shift and dragging the mouse
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to enclose another vertex/endpoint. After selecting all desired elements pressing the <kbd>m</kbd> key
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will resize all objects.
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</p>
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<img src="commands8.png">
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<p>
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Circles can be resized as well. Capture the center of the circle with the above described mouse drag operation, the radius can be changed.
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For arcs you can capture the center (to modify the radius) or the endpoints to change the start/end angle or the arc angle.
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<h3>STRETCH OPERATIONS</h3>
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<p>
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An important operation that deserves a special paragraph is the <kbd>Stretch</kbd> operation.
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There is frequently the need to move part of the circuit without breaking connections, for
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example to create more room for other circuitry or just to make it look better.
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The first thing to do is to drag a selection rectangle with the mouse holding down the
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<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> key, cutting wires we need to stretch:
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<img src="commands1.png">
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<p>
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After selection is done hit the move (<kbd>'m'</kbd>) key. You will be able to move the selected part
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of the schematic keeping connected the wires crossing the selection rectangle:
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</p>
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<img src="commands2.png">
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<p>
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In our example we needed to move up part of the circuit, the end result is shown in next picture.
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Multiple stretch rectangles can be set using the <kbd>Shift</kbd> key in addition to the
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<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> key after setting the first stretch area.
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</p>
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<img src="commands3.png">
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<p> Another way to move objects stretching attached wires is to press <kbd>Ctrl-m</kbd> instead of <kbd>m</kbd>
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This way you don't have to remember to press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> when doing the selection.</p>
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<p> Pressing <kbd>Shift-m</kbd> instead of <kbd>m</kbd> will create new wires while moving the selected objects.</p>
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<img src="commands10.png">
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<h3>PLACE, WIRES MANHATTAN PATHS</h3>
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<p> When you press the <kbd>w</kbd> key a wire placement begins. Moving the mouse a rubber wire is displayed.
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Clicking the left mouse button will end the wire placement. If the space bar is pressed you toggle between
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Horizontal-Vertical, Vertical-Horizontal and oblique placement mode.</p>
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<img src="commands14.png">
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<h3>PLACE WIRES SNAPPING TO CLOSEST PIN OR NET ENDPOINT</h3>
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<p>
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The (uppercase) <kbd>'W'</kbd> bindkey allows to place a wire putting start (and end point, later) to the
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closest pin or wire endpoint, this will make it easier to connect precisely without the need to zoom in all times.
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</p><br>
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<h3>CONSTRAINED MOVE</h3>
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<p>
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while creating wires, lines, and moving, stretching, copying objects, pressing the <kbd>'h'</kbd> or <kbd>'v'</kbd> keys
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will constrain the movement to a horizontal or vertical direction, respectively.
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</p>
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<img src="commands4.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px;" >
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<p style="padding-top:0px;"> <i>
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Constrained horizontal move: regardless of the mouse pointer Y position movement
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occurs on the X direction only.
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</i></p>
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<img src="commands5.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<p style="padding-top:0px;"> <i>
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Unconstrained move: objects follow the mouse pointer in X and Y direction.
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</i></p>
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<h3>POLYGON EDITING COMMANDS</h3>
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<p> There are some specific editing modes for polygons. A polygon is created by pressing the <kbd>p</kbd> key.
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After dragging the first segment a mouse button clock will create the second point and so on.
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A double click ends the placement.<br>
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If a polygon is selected the control points are shown with circles. These circles can be dragged with the
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mouse directly.</p>
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<img src="commands11.png">
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<p> Clicking one control point with the <kbd>Shift</kbd> key will add a new point in the polygon shape:</p>
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<img src="commands12.png">
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<p> Clicking one control point with the <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> key will delete a point in the polygon shape.</p>
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<p> Adding attribute <kbd>bezier=true</kbd> or <kbd>bezier=1</kbd> will transform the polygon into a bezier
|
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curve with the polygon points acting as control points.</p>
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<img src="commands13.png">
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<!-- end of slide -->
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<div class="filler"></div>
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</div>
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<!-- frame footer -->
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<iframe seamless src="xschem_footer.html" class="footer_iframe" >
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</body>
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</html>
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