Adding Components

Follow these steps to place library components on your schematic.

1. To place a component on the schematic, select the AddComponent command or click on the Add Component toolbar icon, shown in the next illustration.
   
   
   
   The Add Component dialog box appears, shown in the “Add Component Dialog Box” figure.
   
   When you initially bring up the Add Component dialog box, ViewDraw displays the components found in the first library in the Directory field.
   
   
2. To view the available components in a library, select the library in the Directory list box.
   
   The previous action updates the Components list box in the dialog box.
   
   
3. Using the down arrow in the scroll bar of the components list box, scroll down until you find the desired component.
   
   

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   NOTE

   After selecting the components list box, you can jump to a component by typing the component's name.

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4. Select the component.
   
   This highlights the component, updates the Symbol field, and an image of the component appears on the right.
   
   

   Figure 3.8 Add Component Dialog Box

5. To place a component on the schematic, left click on the image of the component. Move the cursor into the schematic window and left click again to place the component.
   
   

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   NOTE

   Make sure all user-defined blocks that you add to your design come from the Primary directory, not from the discrete path that describes your project directory. This ensures that each symbol in the design has a proper alias, reducing the risk of errors for programs like Altran that refer to these aliases.

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6. Place as many components as desired, then click on the Close button to close the Add Component box.
   
   

NOTE

Do not use Add Component to select LogiBLOX components from the LogiBLOX library directly. The “Adding LogiBLOX Components” section describes how to add LogiBLOX modules to your design using the interactive LogiBLOX Module Selector.