Inst Command

/centre

If specified the cursor will be positioned in the centre of the selected schematic window. Otherwise the cursor will remain at whatever position it happens to occupy when the command is executed.

/comp

Places a component symbol whose path is specified by symbolname .

/fast

(Unsupported) Disables operations that are time consuming. Intended to be used when large numbers of instances are placed using a script. After completion, must call Anno followed by a refresh operation such as "Zoom full"

/loc

If specified, instance is placed directly on sheet without user interaction at the location specified by x and y and orientation specified by orient . These values are relative. The origin of the schematic is not fixed. Usually the values used would have been returned from a call to the function InstPoints .

/nolocal

Only effective if /comp also specified. Forces reloading of the component symbol from the original file instead of using a local cached copy. This may be different if the source file has changed.

/norepeat

If specified a single instance will be placed regardless of the value of the 'RepeatPlace' global option.

/orient

Specifies orientation of symbol. Value from 0 - 7 as illustrated below.

/repeat

If specified the instantiation is repetitive. This means that once one instance has been placed, another will be presented. This continues until the user presses the right mouse key. This switch will be ignored if the RepeatPlace option is set to 'Never' (Placement options set to 'Never' in schematic sheet of options dialog). If RepeatPlace is set to 'Always', the repeat action will be enabled even if this switch is not present as long as /norepeat isn't present. If the /loc switch is present repeat action is disabled in all circumstances.

/repeatalways

If specified, instance is placed directly on sheet without user interaction at the location specified by x and y and orientation specified by orient . These values are relative. The origin of the schematic is not fixed. Usually the values used would have been returned from a call to the function InstPoints .

/select

If specified, the instance is selected after being placed on the schematic.

/useph

Only effective if /comp also specified. Will place a place holder symbol if the component symbol specified is not found. Without this switch an error message will be displayed if a component symbol is missing.

symbolname

Name of symbol. Symbol names "caption" and "free_text" are treated specially. See notes.

propname

If specified, property of this name is changed to propvalue .

propvalue

See above.