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Placing component in schematics

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Placing component in schematics

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- [Instructor] So now that we've learned how to create a new empty project, and how to install new libraries, next let's take a quick look at how we can place some of our components within our project. So here I have my empty schematic sheet, and what I may like to do is just navigate over to my libraries panel. Of course I'm going to want to make sure I'm in the library that I'd like. So in this case for this specific project, I've created this LilyPad Simple V2 library, and this will hold all of the components I need for my specific project. And I can navigate through this list to find whichever component I may want to insert. And then once I've found what I'd like to insert to my schematic, it's a very simple process to do so. So I have a few different options. For one, let's say I want to bring in this component here, I can just click and drag from my library into my schematic sheet and place in whatever location I would like. Another option, I can right-click on any specific…

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