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Advanced use:
CIT file manager - Find and sort your component types files
File manager - Find and sort your files
Automatic HTML page generation - Publish your PCBs
Component types editor - Create your own component types
3D view

CIT File manager |

CiDess file manager allows you to find and sort easily the CIT files in your hard drive.
In "File" menu choose "Launch CIT files manager..."
The next window will appear:
You can choose a path and enter search parameters.
Clici on "Search" bouton to start search procedure.

| Search procedure run time depends on the specified path. CiDess can't browse a 120Go HDD in 2 seconds!

Then the results will appear:
If you clic on a line of the table, a popup menu proposes you to open the CIT file in CiDess (= add the component types) or to localize the file with Windows Explorer.
With the file manager, you will never lose your files again!

File manager |

CiDess file manager allows you to find and sort easily the CID files in your hard drive.
In "File" menu choose "Launch files manager..."
The next window will appear:
You can choose a path and enter search parameters.
Clici on "Search" bouton to start search procedure.

| Search procedure run time depends on the specified path. CiDess can't browse a 120Go HDD in 2 seconds!

Then the results will appear:
CID files are sorted by project name and circuit name.
If you clic on a line of the table, a popup menu proposes you to open the file in CiDess or to localize the file with Windows Explorer.
With the file manager, you will never lose your files again!

Automatic HTML page generation |

You create electronic devices and publish them on Internet? The automatic web page generation feature will save a lot of your time!
Once you have finished a PCB and fill all circuit information windows entries, save your file and in the "File" menu choose "Create HTML documentation...".
The next window will appear:
Select the data to publish and clic on "Next" button:
If you are created a schematic with another software, you can include it.
Clic on "Next" button:
You can publish the nomenclature.
Clic on "Next" button:
You can set up PCB picture parameters.
Clic on "Next" button:
You can set up layout picture parameters. You can add other pictures (for eg case mounting instructions).
Clic on "Next" button:
You can include files to download.
Clic on "Next" button:
Now choose a name and a path for the HTML page and clic on "Finish" button.
Wait a moment, a web page that describes your PCB is created !
Clic here to view an example.

Component types editor |

CiDess allows you to create your own component types.
Create, edit and delete component types
Create, edit and delete pads
Create, edit and delete solids
Component type sample
Stretchable component type sample
Import components types from CiDess
Bilingual editing French - English
CIT files use in CiDess
In "Edit" menu choose "Component types editor...". The editor allows you to edit CIT files; each CIT file contains one ore more component types.
This is component types editor main windows :
The windows is divided into three parts.
First, the general purpose part:

| "New" button creates and add a new component type. Next window will appear:

| "Change" button allows you to change ID and Category

| "Delete" button remove the current component type

| 50 mil left movement of the whole component

| 50 mil right movement of the whole component

| 50 mil back movement of the whole component

| 50 mil top movement of the whole component

| 50 mil bottom movement of the whole component

| 50 mil front movement of the whole component

| Flip

| Mirror

In the middle, the pad part:

| Add a pad

| Remove a pad

| 50 mil left movement of the current pad

| 50 mil right movement of the current pad

| 50 mil back movement of the current pad

| 50 mil top movement of the current pad

| Decrease current pad diameter

| Increase current pad diameter

| Decrease current pad's hole diameter

| Decrease current pad's hole diameter

| Add or remove a pin on a current pad

| Clic on this area to choose current pad shape. Next window will appear:

At the bottom, the solid part:

| Add a solid

| Remove a solid

| 50 mil left movement of the current solid

| 50 mil right movement of the current solid

| 50 mil back movement of the current solid

| 50 mil top movement of the current solid

| 50 mil bottom movement of the current solid

| 50 mil front movement of the current solid

| 15° rotation of the current solid

| 15° reverse rotation of the current solid

| Clic on this area to choose current solid shape. Next window will appear:

| Clic on this area to choose the color used in 3D view. Next window will appear:

Component type sample
Stretchable component type sample
Import components types from CiDess
In the "Edit" menu choose "Import a component type from CiDess...".
The next window will appear:

| Use this function if you want to create another version of an existing component type.

Bilingual editing French - English
To activate bilingual editing, in "Edit" menu and choose "Bilingual editing".
Also you do not have to create bilingual component type.
If the "Bilingual edition" menu isn't checked, you access only to the ID and category in the current language. The component types created or modified are monolingual; in other words, French and English ID are the same, and so to the category.

| To avoid confusion, don't mix bilingual and monolingual component types in a *.CIT file. That is to say, do not translate partially a *.CIT file.

CIT files use in CiDess
There are two ways to read a CIT file:
- Move the CIT file in CiDess.exe path, quit and restart CiDess. Indeed, CiDess load automatically all CIT files in CiDess.exe path.
- Load manually the CIT file; in "File" menu choose "Add a component type file...". Thus, you have to read again the CID file.
To avoid conflicts between CIT component types and CiDess featured component types, CiDess add "_" character to each ID of CIT component types.

| New in version 2 (10/09/2005): - if you add CIT files in CiDess.EXE path, - if you edit a CIT file with the component types editor, instead of restarting CiDess, use the "Refresh CIT files..." in the file menu of CiDess main window. Thus, all CIT files in CiDess.EXE path and all the CIT files manually added previously will be updated.

3D view |

CiDess allows you to view your PCB in 3D.
As I said in coders page, I created this function for educational purpose. If you want a good 3D view of your PCB, save it as 3DG file and use a 3D software.
In the "Display" menu choose "3D view...".
The 3D utility will appear:
You can set up all 3D view parameters.
Clic on "Draw" button:
CiDess 3D utility allows you to control the picture with mouse.
This is a screen shot with other parameters:
(c) Rémy LUCAS - Last update: 10/09/2005