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Every drawing tool, view, panel and site tool on Circuit Center, with what it does, when to use it, and pictures of it in use.
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Drawing tools for the schematic
- Select
- Add a part
- Draw a wire
- Add a label
- Power
- Text
- Line
- Select with a box
- Select with a lasso
- Global label
- Sheet label
- Directive label
- Junction
- No connection
- Draw a bus
- Bus entry
- Add a sheet
- Sheet pin
- Sync sheet pins
- Rule area
- Text box
- Rectangle
- Circle
- Arc
- Curve
- Table
- Image
- Highlight a net
- Delete
Drawing tools for the board
- Select
- Select with a box
- Select with a lasso
- Delete
- Place a part
- Route a track
- Route a pair
- Add a via
- Fill an area
- Draw the edge
- Tune a track
- Tune a pair
- Tune pair skew
- Rule area
- Local ratsnest
- Text
- Text box
- Rectangle
- Circle
- Arc
- Polygon
- Curve
- Aligned dimension
- Straight dimension
- Center mark
- Radius
- Leader line
- Table
- Reference image
- Barcode
- Grid origin
- Drill origin
- Snap point
- Measure
Views and panels
- Schematic
- Board
- Stackup
- 3D
- BOM
- Files
- Sheets
- Parts
- Layers
- Objects
- View
- Save
- Undo
- Redo
- Fit to page
- Zoom in
- Zoom out
- Night
- Keys
- Edit in browser
Thermal map
- Temperature
- The color map and its scale
- Surface
- Ambient
- Airflow
- Orientation
- Coefficient
- Grid and the grid check
- Watts
- θJB, junction to board
- θJC, junction to case
- Tj and margin
- Where each number comes from
- Heat sinks
- Chassis contacts
- Exports
- What this map assumes
- How it compares with SolidWorks