- [Instructor] So let's take a look
at creating our very first project.
So when we first open SOLIDWORKS PCB,
we might just see a kind of a blank screen like this,
or we might see the Home or Start screen,
and to see that, I can just go into my Home and Start.
So when we first load up the software,
we might start off in this screen as well,
and this is just showing us some of our recent projects
and some options to start a new project and so on.
So I have a few options here.
Of course, I can just select Start a new Project.
I can open an existing project,
jump into any recent project I may have been working on.
So I can use this to create a new project of course,
or something we might be familiar with as well
is just in the File dropdown.
So we have those same options, New,
Open, Open Recent, and so on,
and if this is my very first time using SOLIDWORKS PCB
or trying to start a project here,
it's first gonna ask me to connect
to the SOLIDWORKS PCB Services.
So this is, essentially, connecting to the drive
where all the data and information is stored.
So I'll just have to log in, just the first time.
What I like to do is make sure
I check off Remember my credentials
and Sign me in when I first start SOLIDWORKS PCB,
and as long as I have those two checked off,
then I won't have to worry about signing in
every single time I start up the software.
So first I'll just have to point
at our server that holds our data,
and your server may be different,
but the SOLIDWORKS default is localhost,
and then the port is 9780,
If your data's stored on your company's server for example,
instead of being localhost,
you're probably pointing to some server name there,
and then you, as a individual user,
will have maybe your own username and password.
If you're just a single install
and you're using this on your own machine,
the SOLIDWORKS default, again, is just username of admin
and password of admin as well,
but of course, if you're working at a company
with multiple licenses, multiple users, and so on,
you may have your own username and password.
That's probably set up by your IT team there as well,
and then just click Login,
and once we've connected to our SOLIDWORKS PCB Services,
we can start to create our first project.
So I have a number of templates
that I can run through, if I'd like.
These are just the default, prebuilt templates.
I'm just gonna use the Blank PCB Project template here,
and then I have a few options down below.
Of course, I can rename my project.
In this case, I'm gonna give it a name,
maybe something like this,
and I can also define a specific location
where I'd like to save this project out.
In this case, I'm gonna say I happy
with this default location,
but you can change this
to whichever location that you may want,
and once I'm happy with that, I'm gonna say OK
to create my brand new project.
So now we see my project coming in.
Notice it doesn't look like there's too much more going on.
All that I've noticed is just
my Projects panel has opened up here,
but currently there is just a project.
There's my project name I just gave,
but no real documents, nothing within it.
So generally the first thing I'd like to do here
is add some documents to my project.
So the first thing, in many cases, that I would do
is I can just right click on my project here.
Gonna say Add New to Project,
and here we can see we can add a number of things,
but most likely you're gonna start off with a Schematic
and maybe a PCB and so on.
So I'm just gonna go to Add New and Schematic.
So now I've added one schematic sheet to my project,
and we can see that coming in just called Sheet1 here.
Of course, I can add as many as I'd like.
So maybe I want another schematic.
It's gonna come in as Sheet2,
and then maybe I'll add a PCB layout as well,
and that's coming in as PCB1 here for example.
Yeah, so these are just all blank sheets,
but eventually we're gonna be creating
our schematics and our board layouts.
I'll go to Sheet1 here.
Notice I can open each of these from my Project panel
just by double clicking,
and then they'll open on the top
as my sheet tabs here as well.
So from here, I might wanna rename these,
give them a better name than just Sheet1, Sheet2, and so on.
So I can save each of these out,
and just right click and Save or Save As,
if this is my first time saving,
and it's gonna go to that same location
that I created my location when creating this project.
Maybe I wanna give it a different name here.
Let's say LilyPad_1,
LilyPad_2,
or whatever names you may want,
and the PCB as well, just the same.
Just a right click, Save As,
and LilyPad_PCB1.
Of course, you're probably use
your own naming conventions for each of your sheets,
but so you can see here.
In this case, I'm gonna be creating a fairly simple project,
probably just one schematic and one PCB board layout sheet,
but you can create as complex projects as required
with a whole number of schematic documents,
a whole number of PCB board layout documents
as well if needed.