PROTEUS 8 PROFESSIONAL PCB LAYOUT SOFTWARE

Place the components wherever you like keep in mind that you choose simple and easy path which is indicated by the green lines. When you would be placing a component you will see green lines which indicates the connection of one point to the other point and the Yellow arrow head which indicates that this component is to join with this terminal of the other component.Select the component and then click inside the yellow Square to place it Now click on the small diode icon which indicate that component lists.As I have also changed it after completing the design. This is the size of your PCB you can change it by hoovering your mouse pointer at any corner off this Block. Draw a rectangle of any size by clicking anywhere inside the blue area of the PCB window, as you can see I have drawn a 2 x 2 cm² block.Now from the left toolbar click on the Square button and from the bottom toolbar select Board Edge.Click on the PCB layout tab then zoom in to upper left corner as shown in pictures this block is 1x1 cm in area.At this step we have simulated our circuit and verified it on Proteus you need to save this file for later purposes.I have attached last two pictures by changing the value of variable resistor check the output voltage.To check the circuit click on the play icon on bottom left of the proteus.To add a voltmeter click on the meter icon and select DC VOLTMETER then click where ever you want to place it connect it by wires(lines) if necessary.As it is AC you need to add frequency and voltage value as mentioned at output terminals of transformer. Similarly change the value of VSINE by double clicking it.To change the values of components(resistors, capacitors) double click on the component and change it.to join the components with each other click on one end of a component, a line would start, you can click on the other components where you want it to join like in the picture.If you want another 1N4007 just click again as many times as you want. select any component as I clicked 1n4007 from devices section by clicking them once, then click in the area provided for drawing the circuit now the component is available to be place anyzhere, to place click again.

Make sure you selected the little diode button.

Step 4: Making the Schemeticįor this tutorial I designed a Variable Power Supply Sometimes you may have different package but you are selecting another component you need to select appropriate PCB as described here for potentiometer(variable resistor) there are many kinds of potentiometer available in market so you need to first check what is available for your then you can select appropriate design, I have mentioned here some of the potentiometers.

for electrolytic capacitors just tzpe cap-elec.

Double click the required component and it would appear in your devices and search for other components and place them all in your devices section, some of the components might not have the PCB previews but we can add the PCB layout of them(mentioned later). Step 3: Placing the ComponentsĪ black colored window would appear that is PCB layout tab, you can switch the tab to schematic captureĬlick on P button it stands for place, a new window would appear, In this window you can search for the components by typing exact names like 1n4007(diode) or simply type diode but if you want to make PCB you have to check that your selected component has a PCB design which is shown in PCB preview. Here you can check the selected options and click Finish. Normally we select No firmware Project, but if we require to work with microcontrollers like 8051, Arduino we select Creat Firmware Project, and select the options accordingly, if anybody wants to know about that just write down a comment, I would guide for that.

PROTEUS 8 PROFESSIONAL PCB LAYOUT SOFTWARE

If you do not want PCB design just click Next otherwise Mark on create a schematic from the selected template, now you can select Generic single layer or any other layer of your requirement and then click Next, by selecting single layer if you do auto-routing then the software will do only single layer routing(bottom) if you select default and then upon selecting auto-routing the software would double layer(top & bottom layer routing). Now you need to Mark Create a schematic from the selected template then you can either select Default or you can select any templates size normally we select landscape A4, by selecting the Landscape A4 you will have a schematic window as shown in the picture 4 There you can change the Name and Path of the project after setting click N ext

A new window called New Project Wizard appears When you launch Prteus click on New Project or press CTRL+N.

Proteus 8 professional pcb layout