Can I globally change the footprint of components in Multisim 10?

Question

I generally use only one footprint size and tolerance of resistor. If I don't enter these values for every resistor then Multisim treats it as a virtual component and it doesn't get imported into Ultiboard. Doing this is quite tedious, especially for a large circuit. Is there a way of changing all the resistor parameters at once, or does it have to be done for every single value? This is also true for ranges of capacitors.

Answer 1

Multisim's Spreadsheet View is a great tool to set/change various parameters for multiple components at once.
This is what you need to do in order to assign the same footprint to multiple/all resistors:
Open Spreadsheet View (menu view > Spreadsheet View)
Select the Components tab
Click on the column header RefDes and click on Sort Ascending (A->Z)
Select all resistors (click on the first resistor press Shift and click on the last resistor in the column)
Scroll to the right an click in any of the select rows in the column Footprint
The Select Footprint dialog appears.
The footprint you select will be assigned to all selected resistors
Resistors will turn from black (virtual) to blue (real) in your schematic
Regards
Ingo Foldvari
Area Sales Manager - US West Academic
National Instruments