Next, I searched for a capacitor and placed three of them next to each of the LEDs along with symbols for the 5V and the ground connections. I chose the first one that was offered from Adafruit and I quickly placed three of the LEDs to the schematic. You are immediately exposed to the specific component price at different suppliers, their availability, and current stock information so you can know where to order those parts later on. The components editor of Altium Designer integrates with a lot of component manufacturers and suppliers so you can basically search their catalogs of parts. Once I clicked to add a symbol to the schematic, the components window opened to the right and revealed one of the best features that Altium has, the Manufacturer Part Search. This toolbar provides access to the most commonly used tools when working with schematics and I quickly found the 'Place Symbol' tool. Yes, it was an option that I was not aware of: Design - Board Layers and Colors - Show / Hide tab - Rooms was set to hidden.The newly created project opened with a blank schematic editor that had a floating toolbar on the top. Maybe there are some options I am not aware of? (Same if i select the components and tell Altium to place a room around the selection). On finishing the placement, Altium runs through some design rule checks and then. When starting to place a room, the cursor changes, I can click to e.g. However, placing a room manually does not actually place a room. i would like to use this option instead of having the ECO generator generate rooms from my schematics, as im more flexible with their shape if placed manually. There are options to place rooms via Design - Rooms - different options for room placement. In order to move the groups easily, I would like to use rooms. I began to route functional groups in themselves, intending to not route the connections to other functional blocks yet, until everything has been set.

Therefore, the final PCB shape/size and connector placement is not determined yet. I am currently creating a pcb that will, at some point in future, be placed in a case that is not known yet.

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