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Wiring the schematic

Wiring the schematic - Altium Designer Tutorial

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Wiring the schematic

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- [Instructor] So, to start wiring our schematic, I can just navigate up to the active bar and this icon in the middle here has a number of wiring options for me. So, just to start, we can use Wire. And now it's a very simple process, just click once to start our Wire and click again to finish our Wire. Also notice, if I hover over any pins or electrical connection points, I should see my X getting a little bit larger and turning red. So, that's just indicating to me that right on this pin 17, there is an electrical connection point that I will connect to. So, if I click right on to the start of that pin, that will start my wire. And I'll just move my mouse cursor to wherever I'd like it to go next, and then click again, so probably at the beginning of my resistor component here again. I can see my red X coming in so there is no electrical connection point there, and just click again there, and now, I have my first wire drawn between the pins 17 and the first pin of my resistor. So, I…

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