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stan

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I am presently using SwitcherCAD III and am having problems with
rotating objects. The rotate command in the edit menu is always
grey, even if I have selected the object. The ctrl-R shortcut
doesn't work too.

Can anyone tell me how to rotate the object?

(I read in the help menu about something called "object sprited"
What does that mean? How do I use this to activate the rotate command
in the edit menu?)
 
stan wrote:
I am presently using SwitcherCAD III and am having problems with
rotating objects. The rotate command in the edit menu is always
grey, even if I have selected the object. The ctrl-R shortcut
doesn't work too.

Can anyone tell me how to rotate the object?
Click to expand...
LT Help:
*****
....Hence, when you wish to move, mirror, rotate, drag or delete objects,
first select the move, drag or delete command.
*********

(I read in the help menu about something called "object sprited"
What does that mean? How do I use this to activate the rotate command
in the edit menu?)
Click to expand...
LTSpce is completely nonintuitive regarding how its GUI actually
operates for tasks like this. Better GUIs allow, for example,
SuperSpice, "move mouse over component", press the "r" key. Guess how
you Mirror or Flip or even delete components:)


Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
 
"Kevin Aylward" <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:TZHOc.27231$28.11119@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
stan wrote:
I am presently using SwitcherCAD III and am having problems with
rotating objects. The rotate command in the edit menu is always
grey, even if I have selected the object. The ctrl-R shortcut
doesn't work too.

Can anyone tell me how to rotate the object?


LT Help:
*****
...Hence, when you wish to move, mirror, rotate, drag or delete objects,
first select the move, drag or delete command.
*********
(I read in the help menu about something called "object sprited"
What does that mean? How do I use this to activate the rotate command
in the edit menu?)
Click to expand...

Hello Stan,
I have answered the same question a few minutes ago in the
LTSPICE users's group at Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LTspice


Hello ...,
you simply forgot to go into move mode.

Instructions follow:

1. click on "Move", this is the "full hand" icon on the top toolbar

2. click on the component you want to move/rotate/mirror or select
many by clicking and dragging a box around it.

3. Press "<ctrl> and r" for rotate or "<ctrl> e" for mirror of the
selected item.
It is mandatory to first press the <ctrl> key and keep it down and
then press the r or e key!!!

Best regards,
Helmut

PS: It works this way on ten thousand other PCs. If it doesn't work,
then your <ctrl> key has a defect.


Stan, take the small learning curve with LTSPICE and you will
never miss it.

LTSpce is completely nonintuitive regarding how its GUI actually
operates for tasks like this. Better GUIs allow, for example,
SuperSpice, "move mouse over component", press the "r" key. Guess how
you Mirror or Flip or even delete components:)
Click to expand...
Hello Kevin,
I fully disagree!
LTSPICE has a great GUI and is optimized for easy and and really
fast drawing. I like it. The whole GUI is really well organized.

The GUIs in other CAD programs with their thousands toolbar icons
are a nightmare.

Best regards,
Helmut
 
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:29:43 +0200, "Helmut Sennewald"
<helmutsennewald@t-online.de> wrote:


Hi Helmut,

LTSPICE has a great GUI and is optimized for easy and and really
fast drawing. I like it. The whole GUI is really well organized.
Click to expand...
I agree entirely.

The GUIs in other CAD programs with their thousands toolbar icons
are a nightmare.
Click to expand...
Certainly not ideal for running on notebooks, that's for sure. But
Kev's front end is actually pretty good, to give credit where it's
due. I wouldn't put the SS GUI in the "nightmare" category - unlike
its author. :)
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.
 
Helmut Sennewald wrote:
"Kevin Aylward" <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:TZHOc.27231$28.11119@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
stan wrote:
I am presently using SwitcherCAD III and am having problems with
rotating objects. The rotate command in the edit menu is always
grey, even if I have selected the object. The ctrl-R shortcut
doesn't work too.

Can anyone tell me how to rotate the object?


LT Help:
*****
...Hence, when you wish to move, mirror, rotate, drag or delete
objects, first select the move, drag or delete command.
*********
(I read in the help menu about something called "object sprited"
What does that mean? How do I use this to activate the rotate
command in the edit menu?)


Hello Stan,
I have answered the same question a few minutes ago in the
LTSPICE users's group at Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LTspice


Hello ...,
you simply forgot to go into move mode.

Instructions follow:

1. click on "Move", this is the "full hand" icon on the top toolbar

2. click on the component you want to move/rotate/mirror or select
many by clicking and dragging a box around it.

3. Press "<ctrl> and r" for rotate or "<ctrl> e" for mirror of the
selected item.
It is mandatory to first press the <ctrl> key and keep it down and
then press the r or e key!!!

Best regards,
Helmut

PS: It works this way on ten thousand other PCs. If it doesn't work,
then your <ctrl> key has a defect.


Stan, take the small learning curve with LTSPICE and you will
never miss it.


LTSpce is completely nonintuitive regarding how its GUI actually
operates for tasks like this. Better GUIs allow, for example,
SuperSpice, "move mouse over component", press the "r" key. Guess how
you Mirror or Flip or even delete components:)


Hello Kevin,
I fully disagree!
LTSPICE has a great GUI and is optimized for easy and and really
fast drawing.
I like it. The whole GUI is really well organized.
Click to expand...
Well, we all have our own opinions. Every time I have a go at LTSpice
for drawing, it comes across as so cumbersome. It just don't do what one
expects it to do.

The GUIs in other CAD programs with their thousands toolbar icons
are a nightmare.
Click to expand...
I ceratinly agree that some other spices are much harder to use than
LTSpice.

Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
 
Paul Burridge caused an illegal operation in module
<lssmg09mf2s4aq9efdi3925gnvdt9vndhv@4ax.com> at pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk
and will be closed:

The GUIs in other CAD programs with their thousands toolbar icons
are a nightmare.

Certainly not ideal for running on notebooks, that's for sure. But
Kev's front end is actually pretty good, to give credit where it's
due. I wouldn't put the SS GUI in the "nightmare" category - unlike
its author. :)
Click to expand...
I have played with SuperSpice on computers with LCD displays. Looks nice, but
most LCD's can only get to 1024x768... :/


[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Brazil. REPLY TO GROUP!
MSN: wizard_of_yendor@hotmail.com http://marreka.no-ip.com
"You touch the green wire. You get hit by 75kV.
You are electrocuted. DYWYPI? [yn]"
 
Chaos Master wrote:
Paul Burridge caused an illegal operation in module
lssmg09mf2s4aq9efdi3925gnvdt9vndhv@4ax.com> at
pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk and will be closed:

The GUIs in other CAD programs with their thousands toolbar icons
are a nightmare.

Certainly not ideal for running on notebooks, that's for sure. But
Kev's front end is actually pretty good, to give credit where it's
due. I wouldn't put the SS GUI in the "nightmare" category - unlike
its author. :)

I have played with SuperSpice on computers with LCD displays. Looks
nice, but most LCD's can only get to 1024x768... :/
Click to expand...
I have to agree, that one wants as much resolution for SS as possible.
My monitor is set for 1280 by 1024. However, to address the prior point,
I don't have many icons on my toolbar buttons. Its letters for the first
word of what it does for most. I find icons confusing. AC DC TR OP (for
enabling different runs) seem pretty much self explanatory.

Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
 
Kevin Aylward executou uma operaçăo ilegal e será fechado:


I have to agree, that one wants as much resolution for SS as possible.
My monitor is set for 1280 by 1024. However, to address the prior point,
I don't have many icons on my toolbar buttons. Its letters for the first
word of what it does for most. I find icons confusing. AC DC TR OP (for
enabling different runs) seem pretty much self explanatory.
Click to expand...
This is a Good Thing (TM) of SS. The interface isn't full of stuff.

[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Brazil. REPLY TO GROUP!
MSN: wizard_of_yendor@hotmail.com http://marreka.no-ip.com
"You touch the green wire. You get hit by 75kV.
You are electrocuted. DYWYPI? [yn]"
 
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:04:42 GMT, Kevin Aylward wrote:

Chaos Master wrote:
Paul Burridge caused an illegal operation in module
lssmg09mf2s4aq9efdi3925gnvdt9vndhv@4ax.com> at
pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk and will be closed:

The GUIs in other CAD programs with their thousands toolbar icons
are a nightmare.

Certainly not ideal for running on notebooks, that's for sure. But
Kev's front end is actually pretty good, to give credit where it's
due. I wouldn't put the SS GUI in the "nightmare" category - unlike
its author. :)

I have played with SuperSpice on computers with LCD displays. Looks
nice, but most LCD's can only get to 1024x768... :/


I have to agree, that one wants as much resolution for SS as possible.
My monitor is set for 1280 by 1024.
Click to expand...
That's the minimum res with which I could comfortably use SS, IIRC.
It's what I'm set at now. SS is only *one* of the screen consumptive
apps I run, well, ran it a couple times, anyway.



--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
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