Chapter 2 – Schematic Capture Editor 25

 To save the design

At this stage it might be a good idea to save your design. Go to the File menu and select Save As. Save it to the Examples folder and call it something sensible, like Tutorial.sch.

Placing Components

The position of the components currently is as they were placed after adding them to the design. We need to place them around the Op-Amp so they can be used in our circuit. On a real design, this would be how you would work in practice. To remind you, the original

‘drawn’ circuit looks like this:

As before, move the components into position by picking and dragging them in one move using the mouse.

Components can be rotated during move by clicking the <R> key. A single click of the R key will rotate the component by 90 degrees. Click R more than once to rotate it by another 90 degrees and so on.

Note: You can also change the placement to fine tune it after adding the connections as well. The design will now look like this:

You are now ready to add connections.