After the PCB manufacturer project is saved, navigate to Design ⟶ Import Changes from.

Once you’ve saved your project with the new PCB file, and there will be no other changes to your schematics, you’re ready to import your components. To turn off this option, navigate to Project ⟶ Project Options ⟶ Class Generation then unselect Generate Rooms. Note that this is not required, but it does make things easier if you don’t feel like having components grouped into rooms while creating your layout. This will get rid of the predefined red box that you’ll see after you import components into a new PCB file. Go to the Navigator panel, right-click the PCB project file, and select Add New to Project ⟶ PCB. After opening the new file, you should see a blank PCB document: A blank board in the PCB Editor window.Īt this point, I usually like to turn off the ‘automatic room generator’ option before importing components into a new PCB. Now that the schematic is finalized, you’ll want to add it to a new PCB project and create a blank PCB layout. In the image below, we’ve already added the schematic to a new PCB project, and we’re now ready to add a blank PCB into the project to get started on the layout. Our LM358 Op-amp Circuit Schematicīelow is the schematic we’ll use to get started on our PCB layout, but with one minor correction: the speaker designator has been updated to SP1.

The finished version of our PCB layout will look something like this: A preview of what our final PCB layout file will look like. The component count is low enough, and the frequency range is low enough that we can place all the components on a single layer. We’ll be continuing from the end schematic of that tutorial, then walking through the process to create a finished PCB layout in Altium Designer®. This layout contains an LM358 op-amp circuit that runs at audio frequencies, as well as a number of other components. In a previous post, we focused on making a simple active amplifier using the TI LM386 op amp.

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