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Title: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: dnparadice on January 03, 2024, 04:20:35 pm
Hello,

I have a mystery green dot on my schematic. I can't click it, I cant drag select it, I cant find an object it is associated with. Can anyone identify this mystery dot (see image, arrow points to dot) and let me know what it is?

Thanks

-J

Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: ajb on January 04, 2024, 09:34:34 pm
Does it persist across opening/closing altium?  Recompiling the project? 

If you can't get rid of it any other way, you might move all of the components to a new schematic file.  Doing that via cut/paste will generally fuck up your component links, but there's a way to avoid that.  Edit » Refactor » Move Selected Subcircuit to Different Sheet: https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/design-refactoring#!moving-selected-sub-circuitry-to-a-different-sheet (https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/design-refactoring#!moving-selected-sub-circuitry-to-a-different-sheet)
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: dnparadice on January 05, 2024, 12:12:40 am
Quote
Does it persist across opening/closing altium?  Recompiling the project?

Yes to both. I will try a new schematic, thanks for the tip.

-J
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: mengfei on January 12, 2024, 03:40:08 am
if you select ALL can it be moved?
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: dnparadice on March 07, 2024, 02:29:13 pm
Quote from: mengfei on January 12, 2024, 03:40:08 am
if you select ALL can it be moved?

No I cant find a way to select it. I resigned myself to ignoring it.
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: tszaboo on March 07, 2024, 02:34:29 pm
Update video card drivers. Get an nVidia card if you don't have one. That's what I see visual bugs with most of the time.
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: T3sl4co1l on March 08, 2024, 06:19:45 am
Try deleting objects until it goes away, narrow it down until you find the culprit.  If still there, try saving the template separately, edit that and see if it's in that way.

There are also ways to select things with queries that can't be selected by double/clicking.

Tim
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: voltsandjolts on March 08, 2024, 08:03:50 am
Welcome to Altium.
Place something over it to hide it :P
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: Pseudobyte on March 11, 2024, 12:30:38 pm
You can try selecting each item in the SCH List panel and see if it is in there. It almost looks like the "Show Graph" functionality that is available in the Navigator panel.

(https://i.imgur.com/DYMTaUl.png)
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: doklevise on March 19, 2024, 10:44:48 pm
Have you tried Shift+c ?
Title: Re: Mystery green dot on schematic
Post by: mengfei on March 25, 2024, 02:00:27 am
open a new blank SCH Template copy your design & paste it

- if the green dot follows it could be attached to one of the components
- if that happens, try copying by sections until you narrow it down

i'm slightly OCpd  :-DD