Project Options - Search Paths

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Modified by Admin on Nov 6, 2013

The Search Path Tab of the Project Options Dialog.

Summary

The Search Paths tab of the Project Options dialog enables you to specify the search paths to library and model files for the project.

Access

Open Project Options dialog by clicking Project » Project Options, then click Search Path tab.

Options/Controls

Ordered List of Search Paths

Path - This table shows the ordered list of search paths for library and model files (e.g. PCB footprint libraries, Simulation and SI models). For each path, you can specify the filter and the recursive settings.
Filter - Define the filter for the search. The filter by default searches for all files.
Recursive - The Recursive setting when checked will search all the sub directories of the search path directory. Double click on a search path to edit this path.

Files Found on All Search Paths

This table shows the library and model files that are found from the Ordered List of Search Paths list. Use the Refresh List button to fetch an up-to-date list of files using the current search paths.

Name - Name of the found files
Location - Location of the found files

Buttons

Add - Click this button to add a new search path to the Ordered List of Search Paths. Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to determine the order of search paths (in an ascending order).
Delete - Click this button to remove a selected search path from the Ordered List of Search Paths list.
Properties - Click this button to edit the properties of the selected search path.
Move Up - Click this button to promote the selected search path up in the Ordered List of Search Paths list.
Move Down - Click this button to demote the selected search path down in the Ordered List of Search Paths list.
Refresh List - Click this button to list the files found in the search paths specified from the Ordered List of Search Paths list.

Setting up a path does not mean that the libraries on that path are installed in the project. You are really just setting up 'pointers' to where those libraries reside on the hard disk.

The paths you define are local to the current project. If you wish to make libraries available to each project within the application, you will need to add the libraries to the Installed Libraries list. This again, is a list of pointers to library files that exist on the hard disk. Adding libraries to the Installed Libraries list is a separate and distinct operation.

The search paths specified in this tab will be used, in the order that they are listed. A default search path exists, which is the path to the actual project document. This default path will be searched first, before searching the paths defined in the tab.