Component Text Position

Parent page: PCB Dialogs

The Component Text Position dialog.

Summary

This dialog allows the designer to quickly set the location of the designator and/or comment text strings for one or more selected components.

Access

This dialog is accessible in the PCB Editor. With the components (whose designator and/or comment text you wish to position) selected in the workspace, use the Tools | Arrange |  » Position Component Text command, from the main menus.

Options/Controls

The dialog presents sections for defining the positional style for both Designator and Comment, independently of each other. In each case, use the radio buttons arranged around a section's component graphic to choose the required positional style for the text, in relation to its parent component. Each of these is an autoposition style, meaning that the text will remain in the chosen position as the component is moved and rotated. To leave text in its current position, with no modification, leave the No Change option enabled.

The following positional styles are available, which correspond to the entries in the Autoposition field, in the Designator and Comment dialogs (or parent Component dialog):

• Left-Above
• Left-Center
• Left-Below
• Center-Above
• Center
• Center-Below
• Right-Above
• Right-Center
• Right-Below