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Creating schematic symbols - Altium Designer Tutorial
From the course: Learning Altium
Creating schematic symbols
- So let's start off by creating a fairly simple Library Component. As an example, let's generate a capacitor. So the first thing I might want to do is just change the properties of the component itself. So here I could see all the list of components within my library and I can add additional, delete, edit, and so-on. Right now I just have one component called Component. And I can edit that if I'd like. That will jump me into my component properties here so I can change the name, designator, additional properties, parameters, pins, and so-on. So a whole number of properties I can change here. I'll just change a few. Maybe I'll call the Design Item ID maybe Cap101. And the description, just the capacitor there. Maybe the designator as well I probably want to start a C. And so on and I can change out of my own custom parameters, edit any pins that may be there, add pins, and so-on. Pin names, pin numbers, and everything like that. But for now I'm just going to change the design item ID…
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