Select and modify/highlight multiple components (property inspector)

[Xavi Torres]

It would very hepful when building the PCB (soldering components), to be able to select components (Either in Schematic or PCB) with these two methods:
 - One by one (By holding down the Shift key while clicking on the component)
 - By parameters. For instance, select all components with value=10K and Footprint=0603.

It also would be very hepful that, once multiple components are selected, to be able to change (On all of them at once) any of their attributes: Value, footprint, user field, name visibility in PCB, etc

[Xavi Torres (xtm)]

I think is related to blueprints already discussed here (http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/Hackathon-ehal)

Regards

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

We have multiple selection, and in a very few cases multiple modification (tracks and vias, for instance).

[Jon Evans (craftyjon)]

A find by parameters feature will be possible with the new object parameter system, so we can probably tackle this for V6 if we have time.

[Xavi Torres (xtm)]

Hi Jeff,

>"We have multiple selection, and in a very few cases multiple modification (tracks and vias, for >instance)."

Yes, but it works directly in PCB but, is there anyway to do the same from schematic? I mean, select several compoenents in schematic and see these components highlihted in PCB?

>"A find by parameters feature will be possible with the new object parameter system, so we can >probably tackle this for V6 if we have time."

Great!

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Hi Xavi,

Multiple selection will come for free in 6.0 (with the GAL canvas & toolset for eeschema). While we won’t get multiple editing for free, we should get the cross-probing highlighting for free.

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 13 Mar 2018, at 11:11, Xavi Torres <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
>> "We have multiple selection, and in a very few cases multiple
> modification (tracks and vias, for >instance)."
>
> Yes, but it works directly in PCB but, is there anyway to do the same
> from schematic? I mean, select several compoenents in schematic and see
> these components highlihted in PCB?
>
>> "A find by parameters feature will be possible with the new object
> parameter system, so we can >probably tackle this for V6 if we have
> time."
>
> Great!
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1640873
>
> Title:
> Select and modify/highlight multiple components
>
> Status in KiCad:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> It would very hepful when building the PCB (soldering components), to be able to select components (Either in Schematic or PCB) with these two methods:
> - One by one (By holding down the Shift key while clicking on the component)
> - By parameters. For instance, select all components with value=10K and Footprint=0603.
>
> It also would be very hepful that, once multiple components are
> selected, to be able to change (On all of them at once) any of their
> attributes: Value, footprint, user field, name visibility in PCB, etc
>
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[Xavi Torres (xtm)]

That's good.
Many thanks

Best regards
Xavi

[Gabriel Staples (ercaguy)]

Thanks! Glad this one will get fixed. Any idea on an estimate of how long it will take for 6.0.0-rc1 to come out? Are there full-time devs working on KiCad now? How many?

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Not any time soon as we are still working on 5.1 due to issue with gtk3 on linux. I'm hoping we will release 5.1 before FOSDEM 2019 (first week in February). Once 5.1 is released the development branch will be open for v6 development. Given the list of new features slated for v6, I suspect it will be at least a year (most likely longer) until it is released. There are no full time KiCad developers. There are only two paid part time developers and another 5-6 volunteers that occasionally get paid to implement some feature. I think we do a heck of job given our manpower limitations.

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

Yes. The people here are doing a great job, mainly because of partial time dedication (besides your own jobs).
As my partial dedication, I keep on track my reported issues and help the community here with debug on Linux/GTK. @Gabriel, keep this bug on track reporting if it fix was not good, this is great help for the KiCad community.

[Anton (antonpupkov)]

Good idea!

[CeDeROM (cederom)]

+1 here both for symbol and footprint editor :-)

[Nuff (nufflee)]

Hi everyone, I'd want to try to look into multiple modification but I'm not sure if it is worth it if the new property system is going to be introduced in v6. What does the timeline for this look like now (about a year later from the last update in this discussion).
If this is still something worth implementing, does anyone mind sharing how exactly would this be implemented, code structure wise?

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

@nuff- You should not address the issues in this domain yet. It's a large change/feature being worked on by Orson (one of the lead developers). Once it is in place, there will be room for improvement and you might check back then.

In the meantime, if you are interested in getting some KiCad coding, there are a number of open bugs marked "Starter" that will be very good to address. You can find them under

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bugs?field.tag=starter

[Nuff (nufflee)]

@sethh I see, thank you for letting me know. Is there any ETA for this feature or v6 rc1 in general?

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

No, but you can subscribe to this bug report to receive notification when it is closed.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. Try searching for "lp:#1640873" on https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues