All about PCB Design

Monday, 29 September 2014

How to Rotate, Move and mirror Components in Pulsonix PCB design tool?

Problem:-1

How to rotate components in Pulsonix PCB Design Tool?

Solution:-1

Select the component and press "R". Will rotate the component. Or Select the component and right click and click at rotate 90 or Rotate one step or Rotate About.


Problem:-2

How to do mirror for component in Pulsonix?

Solution:-2

Select the component and Press M or right click on component after selecting and click at Mirror. [ for reference see above image ]

Problem:-3

How to move the component in Pulsonix?

Solution:-3

Moving components in schematic as well as Layout is very easy. There are two ways to do that.
  1. Select the component and right click and hold. And then drag the component at desired location.
  2. Select the component and then right click on it and then click at move and place it where you want. [ for reference see above image ] 
  

Saturday, 27 September 2014

How to change units in Pulsonix PCB Design Tool?

Problem:-

I am in the middle of my design. And I am working in mils. How can I toggle or set my units quickly and what are other options?

Solution:-

Pulsonix supports alot of Units. 

mils/thou, inch, mm, cm, meter and, micron.

You can change the Units by two procedure.
  1. By double click at thou ( thou and mils are same thing) or mm on status bar.or you can do it by shortcut key ctrl + U
  2. By going to Setup > Units  [ Shortcut key - Shift + U ]

Friday, 26 September 2014

How to draw Arc and Circle in Pulsonix?

Problem:- 1

I am using Pulsonix PCB Design tool. And I have drawn my schematics of two pages. Now, I am not able to save my design.What I do?

Solution:-1a

I think you are using a trial version. It has limitation. That is why you are struggling. Buy full version.

Solution:-1b

Pulsonix PCB design tool would not let you save file if you have duplicates. Please review your design.

Problem:-2 

I do not see status bar in my Pulsonix tool, how to turn it on?

Solution:-

You can activate it from View > Status Bar.

Problem:-3 

How to draw arc and circle in Pulsonix ?

Solution:-

Open the page and draw a line as shown in below image. Lets say you would like to draw a circle for 100mils dia. Then that line should be 100mils long. Set your grid 25mils ( press "G") and you can watch your length while drawing your line in status bar ( at bottom) If you don't have then activate it from the View > Status Bar.
 Now right click on the line which you have just drawn.

Then click at arc and then click at circle. Now, that line will convert into circle of dia 100mils.

For arc. Click at Arc and then angle 45 or angle 180 or may be you just would like to pick your own value then click at enter angle, then enter your angle value and you are done.

Please note:- For those who don't know :- dia stands for Diameter 

Thursday, 25 September 2014

How to add another sheet in Pulsonix PCB design tool

Problem:-

I was working on my design at Pulsonix PCB design tool. And I have run out of space. I would like to add another sheet. How to do that? I am looking for a right procedure.

Solution:- 

Its very easy all you need to do is

go to insert > new page


It will add the new sheet of same size ( and same profile as well).

How to change schematic sheet size in Pulsonix

Problem:-

I am using a Pulsonix PCB design tool and I was working on my schematic sheet. And I have run out of space. My sheet size is A4. Now, I would like to change it to A3.

I know I can add another sheet and continue my work. But I don't want to do that. Please help.

Solution:-

In Pulsonix you can do that by replacing your profile files.

Go to Setup > Load drawing profile

A windows will pop up

Select the a3 file as shown in below image.


Good luck.