Menu Attributes (Lepton EDA Reference Manual 1.9.18)

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#### 5.3.8 Menu Attributes ¶

Attach

  Attributes → Attach (`T A`) attaches a text attribute to an object. You can select attributes and other objects in any order and then hit the shortcut. However, all attributes will be attached to only one of the objects selected and it is not easy to understand which one will be chosen for that. Therefore, it is recommended to select only one object and any number of attributes to attach to it. Attached attributes change their color to the “Attribute” color and you cannot re-attach them to any other object until you detach them.

Detach

  Attributes → Detach (`T D`) detaches a text attribute from the object it was attached to. After detaching attributes change their color to the “Detached attribute” color. The action does nothing for not attached attributes.

Show Value

  Attributes → Show Value (`T V`) toggles the visibility of a text attribute so only its value is shown on schematic page.

Show Name

  Attributes → Show Name (`T N`) toggles the visibility of a text attribute so only its name is shown on schematic page. Not very helpful for most of attributes but may be useful for those which values were historically not very well chosen, for instance, graphical=1.

Show Both

  Attributes → Show Both (`T B`) toggles the visibility of a text attribute so it is shown in the form name=value.

Toggle Visibility

  Attributes → Toggle Visibility (`T T`) switches off or on the total visibility of selected attributes. After switching off the visibility of an attribute, you won’t be able to simple select it to make it visible again. Either just undo the operation if you did this mistakenly, or use the Attributes → Show/Hide Hidden Text action in order to be able to select any hidden attribute and then toggle their visibility. Please see below for more information on that.

Hide Specific Text...

  Attributes → Hide Specific Text... (`T H`) allows to quickly hide a set of text objects having the specified text prefix. For attributes you have to specify their full text, that is, the name of attribute as well (e.g. refdes=U), no matter which style of visibility (‘`name`’, ‘`value`’, or ‘`both`’) each particular attribute has.

Show Specific Text...

  Attributes → Show Specific Text... (`T Shift-H`) allows to quickly make visible a set of hidden text objects having the specified text prefix. The same rules apply as for Attributes → Hide Specific Text....

Show/Hide Hidden Text

  Attributes → Show/Hide Hidden Text (`T I` or `E N`) toggles displaying of hidden text objects. Sometimes, it is convenient to not always show some information, e.g. attributes, or it should not be present on the printed paper. You can make some text objects invisible with the Attributes → Toggle Visibility action described above and toggle their visibility by using this action. Hidden text objects will have little markers at their anchor points like the letter “I” (which means “invisible”).

Find Text/Check Symbol

  Attributes → Find Text/Check Symbol (`T F`) opens a bottom widget where you can select one of operations: searching for specific text, searching for text by a pattern, searching for text by a regular expression, or checking the symbol if you’re in the symbol editing mode. The last operation is special and allows you to interactively run the same checks `lepton-symcheck` does, with feedback in the form of dialog windows where you can select the issue items and go to the place the objects in question reside in.

Autonumber Text...

  Attributes → Autonumber Text... (`T U`) opens an interactive autonumber dialog window in which you can select the scope of autonumbering and several options. Hit the ‘`Apply`’ button after choosing the wanted settings to actually run the autonumbering or ‘`Close`’ to cancel it.

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