- [Instructor] Once I'm happy with my final schematic here.
So, I've thrown in all my components,
done all the wiring,
given all the component designator names,
and nets, and everything else I may be happy with.
Once I think I'm good with that,
I'm happy with my schematic here,
a good final step that you should always run through
is compiling your schematics.
You're compiling your project.
So, that will just compile the schematic.
Essentially, the SolidWorks PCB software
will look through your entire design,
and see if there might be any issues,
or errors, within your schematics.
So, to do that,
I can just go into my home tab,
and this project drop down here,
and I have a number of options there.
I'm gonna look for compile,
and I can just click on compile there,
and it's gonna run through my whole project schematics here,
and give me a list of any errors,
or warnings, it may have found.
So, it looks like I have a few issues here,
and it gives me a message here.
Looks like I have a duplicate component designator JP one.
The other duplicate component JP one,
and then maybe an unconnected line as well.
Also, for each of these messages,
if I just click down here,
I see the specific details there.
And, what I can do,
it's telling me I have two duplicated connectors here,
or components, JP one, and JP one,
and I can actually double-click on these components,
and it should sort of jump to and highlight
that component symbol in my schematic.
So, here's one JP one designator,
and I can double-click on the other as well,
and I see okay, yeah.
This is also JP one,
so I've made a mistake here in my design.
I've named two components the same JP one designator.
So, of course, I might just need to make this fix,
so I'll just jump back into my schematic,
and maybe change the designator here to JP two,
and that should fix up that error there.
And, my second error is just the same,
the duplicate components again.
And then, it looks like I have a warning as well saying
I have a unconnected line somewhere,
or unconnected wire.
And, again, I can double-click on the details here,
and it should jump me straight to this wire here.
Yes, of course, unconnected,
doesn't look like it should be there at all.
So, I'm just gonna grab this wire and delete,
and now I have made those two fixes there,
and now I can just try recompiling
and see if I've fixed up all my issues.
And, I can go into project, and compile,
and now take a look at my messages.
I only have one message,
gettin' the green light here telling me that
the compile was successful,
and no errors or warnings were found.
So, I'm fine and happy with that.
I can just close out of this messages box here,
and so it's just telling me that the compile was good.
It looks like the schematic was created without
any major issues, or warnings, or errors there.
Now, one important aspect of compiling
is what exactly have I defined to be an issue,
or an error, or a warning?
So, where that is defined,
I'm just using the SolidWorks PCB defaults here,
but that's defined if I just go into
the project tab here,
and on my right hand side,
I have project options,
and the first tab here, all error reporting.
So, you can see we have a number
of options here that we can turn on to be warnings,
or errors, or no report,
depending on our specific needs for our projects,
what you may feel is just a warning,
or what should be an error, or fatal error.
And, that will just give you feedback
on your schematic designs.
So, for any of these potential issues,
you can just change the value to be,
maybe you only feel that may be a warning,
or no report whatsoever required,
error, or fatal error.
Again, for my purposes here,
I'm just leaving all as the SolidWorks defaults,
but you can change and customize these
to suit your exact needs.
And, I'll just say okay here.
So, again, to compile is kind of a critical last step,
generally, within your schematics design,
just to take a whole overview of your design
and make sure if there's any glaring issues,
warnings, or errors.