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4-4 Electronics Workbench
4.4 Placing Components
The component browser is used to select parts from the three databases and place them on a
circuit. It is designed to make it fast and easy to find the part you are looking for amongst the
more than 17,000 available.
Parts are organized by database, group, and family (for example, Master Database, Digital
Group, TTL Family). Filters are provided as appropriate to narrow lists based on value range
and tolerance where applicable. Type-ahead allows you to type a few characters to jump to the
component you are looking for. Search capabilities allow you to find parts using generalized
wildcard searches throughout all the databases.
4.4.1 Using the place component browser
By default, the Components toolbar is enabled. If it has been turned off, select
View/Toolbars/Components
or right-click in the menu area and select Place Component from
the pop-up that appears.
Note This section describes the placement of “real” components. Use the
Virtual toolbar to
place “virtual” components, as explained in “4.4.2 Placing Virtual Components” on
page 4-9.
To choose and place a component.
1. Click on the desired group in the
Component toolbar, for example, Basic. The Select a
Component
dialog box appears with the selected component group displayed.
Alternatively, you can display the
Select a Component dialog box by choosing
Place/Component and selecting the desired group from the Group drop-down list.