If you attempt to move or rotate a design object that has its Locked property enabled, a dialog appears asking for confirmation to proceed with the edit. If the Protect Locked Objects option is enabled in the PCB Editor – General page of the Preferences dialog and the design object is locked, the object cannot be selected or graphically edited. Use the Lock icon on the Properties panel to unlock the object or disable the Protect Locked Objects option to graphically edit this object. If you attempt to select locked objects along with other objects, only those objects that are unlocked can be selected and moved as a group when the Protect Locked Objects option is enabled.

Masking is a way of explicitly removing an object's eligibility for selection and/or editing.

It can be faster to first mask out what is not required instead of selecting what is required.Ĭonsider a design where all vias sitting under a specific BGA device need to have their diameter changed. One way to perform this operation would be to run a query that masks out all non-via objects on the design, then use the Edit » Select » Inside Area menu command to draw a rectangle around the BGA device to select the vias to be targeted. Masked objects appear faded, where the selected object passes the applied filter and is displayed normally, with all other design objects faded in gray. Using one of the Edit » Deselect sub-menu commands.The current selection can be cleared in the following ways: The level of fading can be adjusting using the Dimming options in the Highlight Methods region of the System - Navigation Preferences page. Select overlapped - use this command to single select the next design object in a set of co-located (overlapping) objects, without utilizing a selection pop-up window.The following selection-based commands are available from the Edit » Select sub-menu.

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