Component Group Type Setup
Create and manage user-defined groups by selecting components from a component list, selecting components by clicking in a graphical design display, importing from a DB file, or importing from an Excel file.
Component Group Setup
Create and manage component groups.

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Component Group Setup using Database
Import a DB .txt file to create and manage component groups.
Component Group Type Setup
There are three component group setup types: Part, DB, and Reference types.
- Part: You can select component by part name.
- Reference: You can select component by reference name.
- DB: You can select component from database.
In case of Part type, you can use Direct Component Select option to select component from a graphical display of design. With this method, components are classified with part names only. Another selection type is Select from Component List to select components from a component list table. Another selection type is Save To List to save a list of parts that was selected using the one or both methods described above into a text form DB file with an extension *.txt.

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Figure 10. Direct Component Select Mode

Figure 11. Completion of Direct
As shown in Figure 10, select components from a graphics display. Then the program searches and adds components that are the same part. Click OK to create a new group with the selected components. At this point, components can also be selected by selecting a part name from the part name table.
Select from Component List: Components can be selected by selecting a part name from the part name list table in the Select From Component from List dialog by following the similar procedure that was described earlier for Figure 5.
- Save To Component DB File: Save a list of parts that was selected using the one or both methods described above into a text form DB file with an extension *.txt.
- Selected Comp DB File: The saved DB file can also be used in other menus,
Edit DB to edit or Select Component DB File to choose components.
Figure 12. - Delete Selected Comp Group Item: Unnecessary components groups may be removed by choosing a Delete Selected Comp Group Item option.