Data Sheet

LABCENTER ELECTRONICS LTD.
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Basic Schematic Entry
We’ll start the tutorial by familiarizing ourselves with the basics of schematic design; picking
components from the libraries, placing them on the schematic and wiring them together.
The design in question is relatively large and there is therefore a reasonable amount of drawing
involved. We provide a completed schematic at the end of this section so, if you feel that you
have mastered the basics at any point, there is no need to continue with drawing the remainder
of the circuitry. We do however urge you to read through the full contents of the documentation
as we introduce important features throughout.
The first thing we need to do is to get the parts from the libraries that we need in our schematic.
Selecting Parts from the Library
You can select parts from the library in one of two ways:
Click on the P button at the top left of the Object Selector as shown below. You can also
use the Browse Library icon on the keyboard shortcut for this command (by default this is
the P key on the keyboard).
Right click the mouse on an empty area of the schematic and select Place – Component -
From Libraries from the resulting context menu as shown below: