Find Parts

Find part: CTRL + F

The search function allows selective searching for parts with specific properties. You can access the search function

via the key combination CTRL + F or
by right-clicking a part name in the ICN and selecting Find.

Define search criteria
Search result
Preview and attributes
Process found parts

Define search criteria

You can select the required search criteria by activating or deactivating the corresponding checkboxes. The Windows standard wildcards * and ? are also allowed in the text input fields.

You can limit the search to components which are relevant to Bills of Materials (BOMs) or not relevant to BOMs using the BOM-relevant checkbox. You can assign this property to parts using the Part attributes function in the Properties menu.

	If the checkbox is not active, the relevance to BOMs is not considered for part search.
	If the checkbox is active, HiCAD searches for BOM-relevant parts.
	If the checkbox is active, but with reduced colour intensity, HiCAD searches for parts that are not BOM-relevant. You achieve this activation level by clicking the checkbox once more.

You start the search by

clicking the Start search button or

calling the Find menu and selecting Start search or
selecting the Start/Cancel search function in the toolbar.

Search result

All parts which fulfil the selected search criteria are displayed in the search result list (2). To change the sorting, simply click one of the column headings. You can change the column width of the result list by dragging the frame lines with the mouse.

To define the display of the result list, proceed as follows:

Select the View entry in the menu bar of the search window.
In the displayed mask, deactivate the fields which you do not want to be displayed in the result list.

The toolbar of the search window provides the following functions for printing the result list:

	Print
	Save as text file
	Save as Excel file
	Save as HTML file

If desired, you can rearrange the columns of the search results by Drag & Drop.

Preview and Attributes

For each part in the result list, you can use the Preview and Part attributes tabs to display a graphic preview of the part as well as the attributes assigned to the part. Displayed will be the attributes you have assigned to a part with the Part attributes function. You can also assign or change these attributes directly in the Part attributes tab.

Edit/process found parts

The parts displayed in the result list can be processed directly in the search result list (left mouse button). Also a multiple selection of parts (left mouse button + CTRL or SHIFT).

The selected parts are highlighted in colour and can be processed via the context menu (right mouse button), with the functions of the Edit menu or the functions of the toolbar. This allows you, for example, to assign all parts with a specific colour to another layer, to assign to all parts a different colour, or make them BOM- relevant.

Processing functions overview:

Start search/Cancel		Delete material
Delete selected parts		Activate part + close window *
Change colour		Rename *
Change layer		Itemisation *
Assign material	* inactive for multiple selection

Furthermore, you can process the part master data and assign relevance to BOMs.

If multiple parts are selected in the search result window, the Copy selection to ICN function is displayed in the context menu (right mouse button) instead of Activate part. This function closes the search window and highlights the selected parts in the ICN. You can use the List view, Active part list 3-D function to select the search result as a list view.