Smart Cut Single Room

Parent process: PCB:RunScissors

Applied parameters: ContextObject=Room|Mode=SmartCut_Rooms

Summary

This command is used to slice the room under the cursor into two or more separate rooms. Each new room created may inherit one or more of the components contained in the original room. Where such components belong to a component class, a new class will be created for each new room and membership updated accordingly.

Availability

In PCB Editor, right-click over the room which needs to be cut to open the pop-up menu and then run command Room Actions » Slice and Create Classes.

Details

After launching the command, filtering will be applied to the document, resulting in all room objects remaining visible and all other objects becoming dimmed. The cursor will change to a crosshair and you will be prompted to choose a start point for the slice. Move the cursor to the required point with respect to the room you wish to slice and click or press ENTER.

You are now in slice mode (which is essentially line placement mode). Move the cursor and click or press ENTER to anchor a series of vertex points that define the shape of the slice. When you have finished defining the slice, right-click or press ESC.

Continue defining further slices, or right-click or press ESC to exit slice mode. A confirmation dialog will appear, which states how many rooms the original room will be turned into.

Use the BACKSPACE key whilst in slice mode, to remove the last placed slice segment.

If the members of the original room were part of a component class and slicing results in members residing in the newly-generated rooms, then each new room will have a component class created and associated to it. The component class membership will be updated accordingly, so that each component in a new room will be added to the class for that room and removed from the original room class.

Any room that is created that does not inherit a member component of the original room will have no component class created and assigned to it.

Notes

While defining the slice, various corner modes are available: any angle, 45° and 90°. The mode specifies how corners are created when placing segments of the slice and the angles at which segments can be placed. Each corner mode, except any angle, has start and end points.

When defining the slice, press SHIFT + SPACEBAR to cycle through corner modes. Press SPACEBAR to toggle corner direction.