{"id":75,"date":"2016-09-06T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T06:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eagleblog.wpengine.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:28:09","slug":"what-you-didnt-know-about-eagle-aliases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/what-you-didnt-know-about-eagle-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"What you didn&#8217;t know about EAGLE: Aliases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We continue with our series of &#8220;What you didn&#8217;t know about EAGLE&#8221;. The idea of this series is to show&nbsp;our users features that might not be obvious to recognize, but that certainly optimize your design time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aliases are an underutilized feature in EAGLE. The GRID, WINDOW, and DISPLAY (Layer settings\u2026) support user-defined aliases. 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Once you have the view you wish to have&nbsp;click OK.&nbsp;Do a right click on the DISPLAY icon and select the option &#8220;New&#8221;, provide this layer combination an &#8220;alias&#8221;&nbsp; name.&nbsp; Next time you right click the DISPLAY command, the alias will appear on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Display Command<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/eagle\/2016\/12\/aliases2-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/eagle\/2016\/12\/aliases.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Right Click to on the Display icon&nbsp;to activate ALIAS Options<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Window command, you can actually create named views. 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