![]() ![]() 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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