- [Instructor] Now that we've started our project
and installed the libraries we may need,
let's take a look at actually inserting
some components into our schematic.
So, I'm going to navigate over to the right-hand side
to my libraries here, let me make sure
I'm in the right libraries.
That's the lilypad simple v2 library here.
And here I'll see all the components that I'll be using
to create my schematic.
Now, I can search here, I have a search command,
so if you have a very large library,
you can search specific component names, or footprints,
or whatever it may be, but then once we've found
the components we're looking for, it's very simple
to insert it into the schematic.
I can just click and drag, and throw in my component here,
and I have a few other options as well.
Aside from the click and drag, I could do a double-click,
or a right-click and place,
and any three of those will work.
It's up to your own preferences there. Place here.
What's also useful to know here
is once placed, then you just click again on my schematic
to place the location,
but I have a few other options as well.
If I hit the spacebar key,
that's going to rotate my symbol here by 90 degrees.
And I have a few other options.
If I hit the "x" key, it's going to flip my symbol
about the x-axis, and similarly, if I hit the "y" key,
it's going to flip my symbol about the y.
So you can use any combination of those you may need
to get the exact orientation you're hoping for
for the specific schematic symbol.
And then again, just place one to map you at that.
Notice here if I just click and drag the component,
only the single symbol comes in,
but if I double-click or do the right-click and place,
notice it's inserting as many symbols as you may need.
So you can see I can place one, two, three,
four, and so on, so this is a big time-saver.
If you're using a lot of resistors or capacitors
or something like that in your designs,
you don't have to click and drag
every single time individually.
So you just do the double-click or the right-click-place,
and you're staying in that same command.
Then, once you're happy with all
your symbol insertions there, just hit the escape key
to get out of that, and in this case,
I actually only wanted one of these components in here,
so I can just grab all the extras and hit the delete key
to delete them.
So of course, I'm not gonna go through
inserting every single component here,
but we can just see from inserting a few,
maybe I'll just throw in a few more here,
I'll throw in a couple connectors as an example,
and you can see you can very quickly
throw in all the components you may need
for your specific schematic.