- [Instructor] The Solid Works PCB user interface
may look somewhat familiar to us, as it's quite similar to
any other Solid Works software we may have used.
Also, if you've ever used Altium Designer before,
this is also going to look very, very similar,
as Solid Works PCB was started
from a partnership with Altium.
So, right in the middle here, I have my main design window.
That's where I'm going to be doing
my schematic design and board layout designs.
And of course up at the top,
I have a number of ribbon bars here.
They're just holding all the tools and commands
that we're going to be learning throughout this course.
And in addition to this, I have a few side panels open.
So right now, on my left hand side,
you can see I have my Projects side panel.
So that just shows me the current project I have open,
just a simple project here,
as well as all the documents within that project.
So here I just have two documents.
I have my schematic as well as
my board layout document here.
Over on the right hand side, I have
another docked panel here, a Libraries panel.
This one, again, I use very often
as this is just going to show all of my components.
We're going to see later I can just click and drag
to place these on a schematic, for example.
So these are the two panels that I generally have open.
But they, of course, are completely customizable.
So we can see I can move these panels wherever I'd like.
Maybe I want my Libraries just to be floating here.
Or I can dock it on my left hand side or my right hand side.
So the position is up to your own personal preference.
Also, if you ever want to add additional panels
or want to remove some panels,
I like to just go to the View tab here
and this is going to show all the panels I have available
to me and I can just click to turn those on or off.
So, say I don't want my Libraries panel,
I can just turn that off.
But maybe I want my Messages panel, so I can turn that on.
We can see these popping on or off
in my user interface here.
And turn off projects as well
and now I only have my design space.
So, if you ever find you're missing a panel
or not sure where it went, again, just jump into
that View tab and turn on whichever panels you'd like.
Again, my preference is throwing in the Projects panel
as well as the Libraries panel, in most cases.