Overview on component drawing

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The drawing of custom components

Draw your own Package in the PCB View, draw your own symbol in the Schematic View. Three general steps are needed:

FIRST: Start drawing the package!

TARGET 3001! has no extra package editor. Just go to PCB view with [F3] and select an adequate grid, metric or imperial. Draw a package (= land pattern of the soldering pads including outline of the device) using the required functions from the Drawing tool . After having finished the drawing select all (Capture Window). Hover the cursor to the desired handle cross position and press keyboard key [x] for eXporting and saving it to a package library. Package libraries have the extension *.PCK3001.

SECOND: Draw the symbol!

Also TARGET 3001! has no extra symbol editor. Just draw a symbol (= showing the electrical function in the schematic) in the schematic view according to its data sheet. Leave the grid 0.635 mm = 25 mil. Use the required functions from the Drawing tool . After having finished select all, hover the cursor to the desired handle cross position and merge it by the use of keybord key [y] to a sYmbol. Remark: A component as a whole can be made of several symbols e.g. gates. That's why we need the [y] procedure first. Now select the symbol(s) using of a Capture Window and eXport it by pressing keyboard key [x] to a symbol library. Symbol libraries have the extension *.SYM3001.

THIRD: Assign the package to the symbol and save!

When exporting the symbol to a library assign a matching package to it. For example the one you had drawn in the first step. This is not a must. You can deviate from this way of assigning but it is a common way.

open the Symbol assistant in Menu Components or the Package assistant in Menu Packages
edit any element by the use of a script and save it again