Inspector

The Inspector dock tab edits what is selected in the eCAD editor. All four eCAD workbenches claim it, and what it shows depends on which one is active:

• Diagram and PCB, on the sheet: the selected component's Reference (owned by the assembly BOM for a placed part) and Value, with Move, Rotate 90° and Duplicate. With the Inspector in view (docked apart from the parts pane), a part placed from the parts pane hands the keyboard to its Value field with the symbol's value selected, so 10k is typed as it lands; once a part has its own value, a button offers the same value to the parts from the same symbol that still read the symbol's (10k for R2, R3 too). With nothing selected on the PCB sheet, Values lists every part's value in one column, each field edited in place; a value that is still the symbol's own is drawn grey. For a selected connection, its Connection ID, Stock part number and path; a label's Net name. Below the selection, the document's Connections (Diagram) or Connectivity (PCB): the nets, and the electrical rules check described under PCB.
• PCB, on the board: the board's layers, the selected track, via or part, the design-rule findings, and the rules themselves.
• Symbol: the symbol's properties and its pins.
• Pads: the footprint's properties and its pads.

Each change is one step of the document's undo history, and typing in one field is one step until the keyboard leaves it (see The eCAD editor).