- So now, if we're happy with our electrical schematic,
and we've set up the basics for our PCB design here,
with the layer stack manager and grids and units
and we're happy with all of that,
the next logical step might be to try
and push all of my electrical components from my schematic,
so if I take a look at that schematic
we've drawn up something here,
so we have a number of electrical components placed
on my schematic end here.
And now what I'd like to do is
essentially try to push all of these electrical components
onto my PCB board here.
So to do this, fairly simple process.
Well that's just a click of a button, hopefully.
So we've a few options
if we're in our board design document here.
Just go into my home tab and my project dropdown here.
And I have this option, update schematics,
which will update the schematic end of things.
And import changes from schematics,
so that's gonna try to import
all of that schematic information into my PCB document.
Very similarly,
if I was in my schematic page side of things,
pretty much same idea,
just slightly different wording of the command here,
but again under the home tab, my project dropdown here,
and we have this same command really here
that's just saying update my PCB document
from my schematic page.
So you can do the same command pretty much from either page
if you're in your schematics
or you're in your PCB document.
That's pretty much the same command,
just the wording might slightly change there.
Let's just be aware of that.
So now I can try to update my PCB document
from this schematic diagram here.
And so that's gonna open up
my engineering change order window here, my ECO.
So essentially, it's gonna check my schematic
against my PCB document.
See which components are already there,
see what you're missing, and so on.
So you might do this back and forth a few times
within a single project.
You add some more components in your schematic,
then you push them over to the PCB, and so on.
This is the first time I'm doing it in this project.
So you're gonna see all of my components, of course,
are not on my PCB.
Right, my PCB right now is completely empty.
I just started by designing the schematic,
and you're gonna push all these components,
so the name board, all the connector component,
everything like that.
Resistors, capacitors, all my components at once here.
So I'm gonna leave them all checked on.
Of course, I can turn these on or off
just by hitting the check box here if I'd like.
But I want to push all these components
over to my board design.
So I can start by trying to do a validate changes here.
So I'll just click on validate changes.
Should run through.
It'll let you know if there's any errors or warnings
or anything like that,
but it looks like it's okay
if I'm getting the green checks there.
And then if I'm happy with all that,
and I'm ready to execute those changes,
I can just click on execute changes here.
And it's going through each one
trying to push it over to the PCB design document there.
And looks like it got its way through there,
and there you go.
And you can see now,
it looks like we've jumped over to my PCB design there.
Looks like it went through all these.
I can double-check, but it looks like
it didn't run into any snags there, so I can close out.
And you can see now, looks like all of these components
have been placed in my board document now.
So, now they're just kind of thrown in
close to my board here,
and that's gonna be up to us
to of course place them on my actual PCB
and route them and so on,
but we can see all of my components coming in here
with the rat's nest.
We'll learn more about that later on,
but essentially we have these rat's nests here
between each component, which is showing
which pins are connecting to which pins right now.
And then of course we're gonna use our routing tools
to actually route those up using traces and so on.
But for now, we can just see all of our components placed
on our PCB side, and in the next lesson
we're gonna see how we can actually start placing these
on our board.