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FIGURE 4-2 The Schematic Editor Command toolbar.

Common Commands

We have already used some of the common commands in Chapter 3, but we will recap on them here.

Move

With this command selected, you can drag any components or nets around on the Schematic Editor.
Sometimes it can be difficult to select the component you want. If you look carefully, you will see that

each component has a little cross on it. This is the selection point, so aim for that.
To move more than one thing at a time, you have to use the Group command.

Group

The Group command can be very baffling when you first come to use it. It allows you to select a set
of parts by dragging over the set with the mouse. However, to then do anything meaningful with the

selected set, you have to think ahead and select a command before you select the Group command.
For example, we will look at dragging a group of items from one area of the Schematic Editor to
another. This is something you are likely to do fairly often.