Selecting Things

Selecting items in Eagle sometimes takes one click, and sometimes takes two. A group of densely packed items will cause Eagle to highlight what it thinks you want to select. A second click will confirm your selection, right click will select the next nearest item and Esc will cancel selection.

Right click comes in useful when you want to select a trace underneath another one.

Groups

To move or manipulate more than one object in Eagle, use the group command.

The group command works in both Schematic and Board view. You can type into the command-bar as just gro and it will let you either:

• Drag a selection box around objects,
• Draw an irregular selection line by line, or
• Group everything with gro all

To start a selection box, type gro, hit enter then click and drag over the objects you want to select.

To draw an irregular selection, type gro, hit enter and then click somewhere. Your next click will draw a line from there, and so on until you have a selection. Double-click to finish your selection.

Manipulating Groups

Eagle has myriad ways to trip up beginners. Once you've grouped some objects you must use CTRL+Right-Click (CMD+Right-Click on a Mac) to apply the current command.

For example, you might:

• Type gro and hit enter
• Select your items
• Type mov and hit enter
• Hold CTRL, then right-click and drag your items to move them