Activity 1: Define the PCB

In this activity, you start a PCB document from a schematic and define the basic size of the PCB board.

Note:

For this tutorial, the PCB is not sized to specific dimensions. It is beyond the scope of this tutorial.

Steps

Switch to the PCB document.
1. From the schematic workspace, click Switch > Switch to PCB document .
2. Click Design > View > Zoom to fit .
3. Ensure you see the default PCB board with a yellow from and black background, and the components in the lower left of the board.
  
  The components have white outlines, green and red colors representing the leads for the components and yellow lines representing how the leads are connected.
Resize the PCB.
1. Click and drag the right end of the PCB so the width is a little more than the height of the components.
2. Click and drag the top of the PCB so the height is about the same as the height of the components.

Activity 1 summary

In this activity, you opened a PCB document from the schematic page, and resized the PCB to an approximate size relative to the size of the components.