docs/wiki/geda-gschem_ug-moving_copying.html

   1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   2  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
   3 <html>
   4 <head>
   5   <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
   6   <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" />
   7   <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" />
   8
   9   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  10 </head>
  11 <body>
  12 <a href=.>start</a>&nbsp;=>&nbsp;<a href=geda-gschem_ug.html>gschem_ug</a></br>
  13 <div class="table sectionedit1"><table class="inline">
  14         <tr class="row0">
  15                 <td class="col0 leftalign"> « <a href="geda-gschem_ug-grids.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-grids.html">Grids</a>  </td><td class="col1 centeralign">  <strong><a href="geda-gschem_ug.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug.html">gEDA gschem User Guide</a></strong>  </td><td class="col2 rightalign">  <a href="geda-gschem_ug-components.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-components.html">Components</a> » </td>
  16         </tr>
  17 </table></div>
  18 <!-- EDIT1 TABLE [1-106] -->
  19 <h2 class="sectionedit2" id="moving_and_copying">Moving and copying</h2>
  20 <div class="level2">
  21
  22 </div>
  23 <!-- EDIT2 SECTION "Moving and copying" [108-139] -->
  24 <h3 class="sectionedit3" id="moving_objects">Moving objects</h3>
  25 <div class="level3">
  26
  27 <p>
  28 There are three main ways to move an object:
  29 </p>
  30 <ol>
  31 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Left-click on an object and drag it.  If it is <a href="geda-gschem_ug-selecting.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-selecting.html">selected</a>, everything else that is currently selected will be moved with it.</div>
  32 </li>
  33 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Select one or more objects and press <kbd>M</kbd> to begin moving, and then left-click to place them in their new position.</div>
  34 </li>
  35 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Select one or more objects, and then use <strong>Edit→Move Mode</strong>.  Left click once to begin moving the objects, and again to finish.</div>
  36 </li>
  37 </ol>
  38
  39 <p>
  40 Any nets connected to objects that you are moving will stretch (or “rubberband”) so that they stay connected.  You can turn this behaviour on and off using <strong>Options→Toggle net rubberband</strong>.
  41 </p>
  42
  43 <p>
  44 If you hold <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> while moving, the movement will be constrained to be only horizontal or vertical.
  45 </p>
  46
  47 </div>
  48 <!-- EDIT3 SECTION "Moving objects" [140-920] -->
  49 <h3 class="sectionedit4" id="rotating_and_mirroring_objects">Rotating and mirroring objects</h3>
  50 <div class="level3">
  51
  52 <p>
  53 You can also rotate and mirror objects or groups of objects.
  54 </p>
  55
  56 <p>
  57 To rotate the selection 90° anticlockwise around the current position of the mouse pointer, press <kbd>E</kbd><kbd>R</kbd>.  If you are in the process of placing an object on the page (for example, while moving it), you can also rotate by middle-clicking.
  58 </p>
  59
  60 <p>
  61 To flip the selection left-to-right around the mouse pointer, press <kbd>E</kbd><kbd>I</kbd>.
  62 </p>
  63
  64 </div>
  65 <!-- EDIT4 SECTION "Rotating and mirroring objects" [921-1377] -->
  66 <h3 class="sectionedit5" id="copying_objects_on_the_page">Copying objects on the page</h3>
  67 <div class="level3">
  68
  69 <p>
  70 When you have objects selected, you can make a quick copy by pressing <kbd>E</kbd><kbd>C</kbd>, and then left-clicking to place the copied objects.  You can right-click while placing to cancel the copy.  You can also make a quick copy by selecting <strong>Edit→Copy mode</strong> from the menu, in which case you must then left-click to begin copying and again to finish.
  71 </p>
  72
  73 <p>
  74 If you need to make more than one copy, you can use <strong>Edit→Multiple Copy Mode</strong>, or press <kbd>E</kbd><kbd>Y</kbd>.  This is like a normal quick copy, except you can left-click multiple times to make several copies of the selection, and right-click to finish copying.
  75 </p>
  76
  77 <p>
  78 If you hold <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> while making quick copies, the copy will be constrained to be in line with the original either horizontally or vertically.
  79 </p>
  80
  81 </div>
  82 <!-- EDIT5 SECTION "Copying objects on the page" [1378-2200] -->
  83 <h3 class="sectionedit6" id="copying_and_pasting_the_clipboard">Copying and pasting the clipboard</h3>
  84 <div class="level3">
  85
  86 <p>
  87 You can copy and paste selected objects using the <em>system clipboard</em>.  To copy the selection to the system clipboard, select <strong>Edit→Copy</strong>, or to remove it from the page and put it in the clipboard, <strong>Edit→Cut</strong>.
  88 </p>
  89
  90 <p>
  91 If the clipboard contains gEDA schematic or symbol data, you can place it on the page with <strong>Edit→Paste</strong>.  While placing the clipboard data, you can right-click to cancel.
  92 </p>
  93
  94 </div>
  95 <!-- EDIT6 SECTION "Copying and pasting the clipboard" [2201-2641] -->
  96 <h3 class="sectionedit7" id="using_buffers">Using buffers</h3>
  97 <div class="level3">
  98
  99 <p>
 100 gschem supports several <em>buffers</em>, which work just like the system clipboard, except they are not accessible to other applications.  You can access them through the <strong>Buffer</strong> menu.
 101 </p>
 102
 103 <p>
 104 Buffers can be useful when you have a set of objects that you wish to paste multiple times during an editing session, but not all at once.
 105 </p>
 106
 107 </div>
 108 <!-- EDIT7 SECTION "Using buffers" [2642-] --></body>
 109 </html>