From the course: Learning PCB Design with OrCAD
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Drafting PCB information - OrCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning PCB Design with OrCAD
Drafting PCB information
- [Instructor] Every PCB design should have some additional information to assist others who want to review that design. So, we're going to do a lot here. First of all, let's change the colors on these nets back to the default colors, so choose your color option, select Nets, Clear All Net Colors, confirm with the Yes, then click Apply, then OK. Next, we want to change the origin of this printed circuit board. So, make sure you turn global visibility on so we can select everything. Also, in your Fine tab, go and select All On. Now go into move mode, so that's Edit, Move, select everything in the PCB design, click on one location in the PCB, move it to wherever you like. Right click and choose Done. We're going to place the origin at the lower left corner of this PCB, so go to Setup, Change Origin, zoom in, do not manually click here with the left mouse button. Instead, right click, Snap pick to, Segment vertex. So, that looks good. Next, we want to add a title block to this design…
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