- [Instructor] Libraries are a critical part
of electronics design, as they'll hold all
of our component information
that we'll be using within out projects.
We won't wanna create every single component from scratch,
as that would take quite a large amount of time.
So, to take a look at my libraries,
again, I go into my view tab and turn on libraries here.
And I can see my libraries beside the panel coming in.
And this is just a list of a whole bunch
of electro or electronic components here.
So, resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, and so on.
Of course, there's millions and millions
of electronics components that we can have or choose from.
So, you're probably gonna have some
of your own libraries or you've created a compilation
of the libraries you use most often.
Or you can just download from specific manufacturers.
There's a whole bunch of options.
Again, we have SOLIDWORKS PCB libraries
that can be found online,
and this ties into the all TM design libraries as well.
So you have millions and millions of prebuilt components,
so you don't have to build them from scratch.
And I'll get more into libraries later on as well.
But for now, I just wanna take a look at
some of the existing libraries
we have by default in SOLIDWORKS PCB.
So here we have a few we can see.
We have miscellaneous devices here.
Quite a few components that are very commonly used here
to run through as well as maybe miscellaneous connectors,
a whole bunch of very commonly used connectors as well.
And for the specific project
that we'll be running through in this course,
I've actually created a specific library
for us to use for this as well.
So, it's a very simple process.
You just install any component library you'd like,
and this would be the same if you were downloading
a library from the online content portal.
So, to install a new library,
I can just go into libraries here.
Here it's showing me
what's currently installed on this machine.
Not much 'cause it's a brand new install let's say.
So I just have the miscellaneous devices
and miscellaneous connectors.
But I can install as many other libraries as I'd like.
I'm gonna go to install here and install from file.
And what I've created here is this LilyPadSimplev2.
And that's an integrated library.
So this library will hold all of the components required
for the project we'll be creating throughout this course.
And I'll just say open here.
And now I see I have a new integrated library
being added to my specific installation here.
So I can close out this now,
and now if I take a look at my existing libraries,
I should have my miscellaneous devices,
miscellaneous connectors.
And now this new library that I've called LilyPadSimplev2.
So you can see you can have a whole large list
of libraries here, maybe specific manufacturers
that you use often or so on.
And I'll just click on my LilyPadSimple here,
and we can see fairly small library,
just a few components within it.
But these are all of the specific components
that we'll be using for our specific project in this case.