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PCB Editor 16.6 parts placement annoying

Roberto86

Dear community,

I'm a real beginner so sorry in advance.

I completely designed a voltage conditioning schematic on Capture CIS, I created some parts for a LEM LV25-P and 2 connectors not having the footprints. Additionally I designed the footprints of those new components on PCB editor.

When I come to place the components on PCB editor I find really annoying to place only my designed parts because of a not-correct placing. When I drag one of those components through PlacementEdit it holds far away from my mouse pointer. 

I really don't know the reason. Please help.

Roberto

  • Open the library parts that you created and check where the origin: 0,0 is located. The default is to pick up parts for placement at the Symbol Origin, that means the location of 0,0 in the part drawing when it was created. Typical locations are always within the Place Boundary, Body Center for Surface Mounted parts and pin 1 for through hole components, use the Move Origin in Setup>Design Parameters, Design tab. The Symbol Origin is also the default for the Component Report to extract placement locations. Once the symbols have been checked / modified, use Place>Update Symbols to update the PCB Editor cached versions with the changed file contents.
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