When working from the Libraries Panel, you will be working with libraries that you have attached to your design. Selecting a component to place on the schematic in Altium Designer You can also right click on the part that you want and select “Place” as you can see in the picture below. When working from the Explorer Panel you can hold your left mouse button down on the part in the Explorer Panel and then drag it over to the schematic sheet. The Explorer Panel allows you to connect to external libraries that are online to find parts. When placing a component you are going to be working from either the Explorer Panel or the Libraries Panel. Now that you’ve done all of this, you are ready to start working with the components on your design. You also have the ability to pull components in from attached libraries or that you connect to through online services. You can create these as single part symbols or as multiple part symbols. Altium Designer also gives you the ability to create symbols both manually and automatically.
These are all the basic steps of setting up your schematic for use. The next step is to attach some libraries so that you can search for and find the components that you want to use. You should have also already set the schematic up for size and grids, as well as your preferences too. Let’s assume that you’ve already created your project in Altium Designer and you’ve added a schematic object to it. If you have been avoiding some of these functions because you didn’t know about them, had forgotten them, or didn’t know the shortcut for them hopefully this will be helpful to you. I’m going to describe some of the more basic schematic component placement functions in Altium Designer along with their shortcuts. In that spirit, let’s see if we can help. Other users may know how to rotate the component using a menu command, but navigating through the menus can be so annoying that they avoid doing it because they don’t know the shortcut. I’ve seen people draw nets all over the place because they didn’t take the time to rotate the 3D model of a component.
If you don’t spend much time in the tools, you may not know or remember what you need to do to in order to rotate a part. Take rotating a 3D model of your board shape, for example. The problem though is that we are probably missing out on some great productivity enhancers by not learning more about the tools that we drive. As long as we can run a circuit simulation or get the data and parts on the schematic sheet to connect, that’s normally good enough. As design engineers, we have a lot of things that we do. It’s not surprising that we don’t spend a lot of time enhancing our working knowledge of the CAD tools.
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