- [Instructor] Creating the PCB footprint
for your library components works in a very similar manner.
So for one I want to make sure I'm in my PCB library file
instead of the schematic library file.
Gonna just jump into the PCB library file here.
And again remember, both of these are within
my integrated library.
And same idea, I have a list of however many
PCB components I may want to create,
I can create more, edit existing, delete,
whatever it might be.
And I have a few options here.
For one, again, just as before I can make edits
and changes to these and I can draw out
my footprint here using the home tab,
all the drawing commands I have available to me here.
So you can place pads and lines and connection points
and everything else there.
But one option that's great as well,
I can just right-click in my components here
and I can also use the component wizard.
So that might be a great way or a faster way
to do things once you get familiar
with the component wizard here, it's just gonna help you
through the entire process.
So click on component wizard, here I have my
component wizard manager popping up and click next.
Here I have a whole number of very commonly used
components that we can select from.
So let's say I was creating a capacitor
in this case, so I'll just grab my capacitor here,
which specific units I'd like, imperial or metric,
let's stick with imperial maybe here and just click next.
And it really just steps you through
the whole process to create your 2D footprint.
So in this case is it gonna be a through hole,
a device or a surface mount device,
maybe let's choose surface mount
in this case and next again.
Then the dimensions of the pads that you'll be using.
So I can customize, change these again
depending on the pad size, you get all this information
say from your component information,
your data sheet or whatever it may be.
So I'm gonna throw in whatever values here,
maybe I'll just stick with 50 by 100 and next.
And then how far should the pads be spaced
away from each other, again, maybe I wanna change
these values, maybe I wanna keep the same.
Again, it's all gonna be coming down
to your data sheet information and so on there.
And if we'd like an outline definition here, click next.
But really it does almost all the drawing for us
once we define dimensions and so on.
The dimensions of the outline, how thick we'd like it,
how far away we'd like to be from our
existing components and so on.
And of course can easily edit all of these values here.
Again, what name, finally, should the component
or the capacitor have.
Let's see here, maybe I'll call it CAT101 there.
And looks like I've filled out all of the information
I may need to create this capacitor in this case,
but you can see you can use the same wizard
to create a whole number of different components.
Then just hit finish and there I have my capacitor footprint
all drawn out automatically for me
based on the dimensions I gave.
And here is my CAP101 component.
Just a nice, much faster way.
Of course I could have drawn this out manually
using the poly lines and the pads and everything else,
but using the component wizard can really
cut down on your time.
And once I'm happy with this I can just, again, save out.
And then maybe the most important part
is bringing it all together into an integrated library.
So essentially tying my schematic symbol
with this footprint.
So maybe let's jump back to my schematic side of things,
this CAP101 schematic symbol footprint here.
Jump into that information and again,
in these properties, as I mentioned before
the model section is where I want to make that link.
So I'm gonna try to add something to the models here.
And now it's asking me to browse
to whatever footprint I may have.
Gonna try to browse here.
And so it's automatically browsing to this custom library
that I have open currently.
So since I have it open it automatically knows
to look here, but if you didn't have it open
or if you downloaded it from somewhere else
or whatever may be you just have to browse for it
throughout your Windows Directory
or wherever you may have saved it out
and browse and find your documents there.
But here in this case I am trying to pull
from this custom library and now I can see
all the footprints within my library,
I had just two blank components I think
that I wasn't even using and there's my CAP101
that I've just created and yes,
I can see a nice preview of my footprint there.
So now if I say okay and okay here
you can see it's pretty much linked this footprint model
to my schematic symbol here.
You can even link a CAD model for 3D
and everything like that to tie all that information
into my integrated library.
And I can say okay.
So now I've just created a new library
that has just this simple capacitive symbol,
but I've tied this schematic symbol
to that capacitive footprint and you can follow this
very similar procedure for really creating any
customized library components that you may require
for your own projects.