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iwane

Ultiboard: Fix part selection

Status: New Submitted by Member on 05-09-2016 03:05 AM Comment

Make part selection select parts only on active layer. It is very frustrating when Ultiboard selects and drags e.g. a connector on Top layer along with (intended to be deragged) a resistor on Bottom. Ultiboard also selects locked parts on inactive layers, in situations like in the attached screenshot. I can select the locked part (which is SMT part placed on Top) when dragging parts on Bottom - this is VERY frustrating...

 

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iwane

Ultiboard: Net Coloring

Status: New Submitted by Member on 05-05-2016 02:36 AM Comment

It would be helpful in more complicated designs to have an option to color nets. Currently Ultiboard offers only "Highlight net" option, but it highlights only one net, with a predefined color and disapperas after doing something else. Net coloring allows to glance and see, for example, power pins locations.

 

Regards,

Piotr Falkowski

Hardware Engineer, ZF TRW

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dbur

Fix the group text attributes defect in UB

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-01-2016 02:03 PM Comment

In UB when a selection of multiple text objects are grouped most of them just dissapear.  They do not re-appear when the group is ungrouped.

 

This is a pain when mutiple structures with text objects exist and need to be replicated in a design.

 

I reported this as a bug a couple revs back when I was a beta tester and was told it was fixed for the next rev, but it was not.  I updated the defect report with that info, but noone seems to have noticed.

 

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dbur

Fix UB export layer stack report

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-01-2016 01:44 PM Comment

The report does not generate correctly if you don't have all the layers hard selected first in the design toolbox.

 

I believe this should be considered an error.  The layers exist and should be properly reported, whether they are enabled in the Design Toolbox for viewing or not.

 
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Jirkus

Relative move components

Status: New Submitted by Member on 03-29-2016 09:16 AM Comment

Hello,

 

I am missing a functionality which is common to few other design tools.

 

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1) Select component

2) Type on keyboard: srx 30

3) Result: Selected component is moved relatively 30 units in x direction 

 

This is very efficient way how to position components on the board. You do not have to watch coordinates and carefully = slowly operate with mouse to place component in correct position. 

 

Best regards,

Jirkus

 

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dbur

Stop re-drawing the screens over and over again

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 03-25-2016 01:13 AM 2 Comment

 

This seems to have become worse and worse in recent revisions of MS and UB.  When the spreadsheet is open on a net or part tab in UB or MS every time I touch a net or part or row in the spreadsheet it redraws the screens over and over and over for many many iterations before calming down.  At least 3 times but sometimes as many as maybe 10 or more times.  And it's not very fast either.  It is becoming VERY irritating.

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dbur

UB differential pair groups should be able to specify how close to equal length is required.

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 03-17-2016 05:03 PM 1 Comment

UB differential pair groups should be able to specify how close to equal length is required.

 

There is almost always some amount of length matching error.  Not being able to specify allowed error means you will always get a DRC when you have matched length nets.

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