User Guide

Placing and Editing Parts

After you have selected a part, you can place one or more

instances of the part on the schematic. When the part is

selected, an outline of the selected part appears attached

to the pointer.

Placing a symbol on the schematic

1 Click the Get New Part button to select the part from a

symbol library.

2 Move the symbol outline to the location you want to

place the symbol and click.

Place as many instances of the symbol as you want by

moving to another location and clicking again. Each

time you point and click, another instance of the part

is placed on the page.

Stopping placement

To stop placing a symbol, do one of the following:

• Double-click to place the last instance of the symbol.

• Right-click to stop placing the symbol without placing

an additional symbol.

The outline changes back to a pointer.

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select a capacitor, you will see an outline of

the capacitor symbol attached to the

pointer (as shown below).

See a

so Repeating Part

Placements on page 4-95 and

Global Editing of Attributes

page 4-93.