Package
Every component in TARGET 3001! consists of a schematic symbol and a package proposal which you may use or deviate from. The package (body, housing, footprint, land pattern) is the PCB layout "fraction" of a component. A package in TARGET 3001! consists of an outline drawing according to the data sheet and a pattern of solderable footprints.
Image: A component package
The "Change package" dialog
The "Change package" dialog opens
- on double click upon the handle cross of a package
- on single click upon the handle cross of a package and pressing the keyboard key [e] for edit. Tick box for package and press OK.
Position defines the coordinates of the handle cross of the package. X- and Y-value can be changed on one strike or only the X-value or only the Y-value, see drop down box. The package will be blocked against any movement if box is ticked.
The line Component contains name and value of the highlighted package. In this line no adjustments can be made. Only in the lines Prefix, Number # and Value. Prefix and number represent the name of a component.
The six buttons mean:
Variants - the maintenance of assembly variants (alternatives of assembly within the same project)
Properties - The list of properties of a component
Hide/Show name - Hide or show the component name (not the package name).
Hide/Show value - Hide or show the component value.
Note regarding earlier versions: Component name and -value can be faded in/out separately in the layout. Fading out by deleting from the layout. Fading in by: Highlighting the package in the layout, hovering the cursor to a place where name/value shall start. Starting the Text mode by pressing the ["] key. In the text dialog selecting Function "Component name" or "Component value".
Edit 3D model - self explanatory
Internal connection - Connections having internal load capacity can be derived from the schematic.
A Rotation of a package by degrees would not be defined within this dialog. Preferably it would be done using [Shift]+[t]. The entry here only shows a rotation which had been effected earlier.
The same with the entry Flipped (= from below) - it is only for announcing whether a part is assembled from the bottom side (box is ticked). No manipulation here - better done in menu: "Edit/Mirror"
The line Layer defines the layer on which the outline image of the package for position print appears. Normally it is layer 21, Position top. But also layer 7, Position bottom, is possible or any other reasonable layer of your choice.
Tick at Omit 3D display effects exactly this: No display of this package in the 3D view of the board.
Using the project kind: "Layout without schematic" you can use any package without symbol as well.
After pressing OK the package is fixed to your cursor for placement in the layout. Place the package by single mouseclick M1. In the layout later it will look that way:
You may draw your own package in case the ones provided in TARGET 3001! don't match. How to do so please find in the edit component article.
See also Import Package
See also Export Package