Altium Designer Tutorial 3 - Circuit Schematic

In the previous tutorial, we have made the schematic symbol and component footprint. Now in this tutorial, I will continue to make circuit schematic. You can go to schematic file by double click on the project explorer.

The final schematic of the circuit is looks like this:

To add a component, you can select from menu Place → Part. Then this dialog box will be shown:

Click the Choose button and the Browse Library dialog will be shown.

Set the Libraries to power_supply_3_3_v.SchLib and then select the component that you need. Altium already has common component and connector library. To use that, you can access from Miscellaneous Devices.IntLib and Miscellaneous Connectors.IntLib.

After you finished add the necessary component, you can connect each component using wire from menu Place → Wire. After the circuit is finished, you can change the component name from "?" to numeric value automatically by using menu Annotate Schematics.

In the Annotate dialog, click the Update Change List button, then the Accept Changes (Create ECO) button will be enable, and then click that. After that, the Engineering Change Order dialog will be shown.

 

Click the Execute Changes button to rename all the component that listed in that dialog. The final circuit schematic will be like this with the components name has been annotated.

For the next tutorial, I will continue to make the PCB layout for this schematic.