First of all the last version of eagleware that I used was 6.0.
Recently I installed the version 8.0 demo and was impressed with the strides that eagleware had made. Except that you guys removed one item that I always found useful. There used to exist an option to select a bunch of components and then go to the edit menu and select, "add ? mark to components for tuning".
Unfortunately I couldn't find a similar method in the new version of eagleware, an easy way to select a bunch of components and make them tunable.
As an aside I showed Eagleware's tuning ability to one of the hardware technical leads here and his reaction was, WOW that is fast [emphasis his].
ds
Recently I installed the version 8.0 demo and was impressed with the strides that eagleware had made. Except that you guys removed one item that I always found useful. There used to exist an option to select a bunch of components and then go to the edit menu and select, "add ? mark to components for tuning".
Unfortunately I couldn't find a similar method in the new version of eagleware, an easy way to select a bunch of components and make them tunable.
As an aside I showed Eagleware's tuning ability to one of the hardware technical leads here and his reaction was, WOW that is fast [emphasis his].
ds
What you are looking for are two options in the main menu bar item Schematic: Make Components Tunable and Make Components Fixed.
Make Components Tunable automatically makes the first value in the components dialog box tunable. We have endevored to select the first value to be the one you are most likely to tune. For example, for an inductor, the inductance is first because it is the primary value rather than the Q. In some cases, such as a series LC, it is not so obvious what the user's desire would be. You may have to manually select these components as tunable.
There are several ways to select components.
1. You may click on a component in the schematic.
2. You may select more than one component by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on more components
3. You may unselect a component by holding the Ctrl key and selecting it again.
4. You may drag a box around a group of components.
5. You may combine all of these actions.
6. You may select the Schematic window and press Ctrl A to select all of the parts. GENESYS tries to be "intellegent". Of course is does nothing for ideal grounds. It also will not make the port impedances tunable. You may do that manually if you wish.
As you might expect, Make Components Fixed in the Schematic menu uses these actions as well.
Clear skies and high Q