PADS Professional Fundamentals

PADS Professional Fundamentals training is a basic introduction to the PADS Professional Flow:

• Setup
• Library Manager
• Design Entry
• PCB Layout

Introduction A quick tour of general usage:

• Environmental Setup
• Common Icons
• Mouse Buttons
• Project Configurations

Library Management:

• Basic on Component Creation
• Symbol Creation
• Cell Creation
• PDB Creation

PADS Designer:

• Start & Graphical User Interface
• Create project, schematic and sheets
• Place components with Databook
• Wire the schematic
• Constraints editing principles

Layout Creation:

• Create PCB Container
• Project Integration (Schematic & Constraints)
• 4 operation Modes
• Display control (what you see & enable in selection mode)
• Editor control
• Stackup and Copper Area's
• Drawing object (intelligen graphical items)
• Placing components
• Routing the board
• DRC

Output Generation:

• Silkscreen Generation
• Gerber and NC Drill Output
• ODB++ Output

Appendix A quick look into environment and setup:

• Environment Variables
• Template