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Now it’s time to place the components you selected previously. From the hotbar at the top, click on the Place Part button. A pane should open up on the right with the WARG component library. Scroll through the categories or search for the components you created from the top, double click on a component to grab it and then click somewhere on the schematic to drop it in.

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You can follow the guide below to make your own custom components as well!

WARG Schematic Symbol and Footprint Guidelines

You’ll notice that each part you place has a symbol on top of it that looks something like U?, R? , C?, etc. This is the designator, which is a short text string to identify each component. Every component needs a unique designator, so you’ll need to modify all the designators to replace the question mark with a unique number. This is done by double-clicking a designator to modify its value. Alternatively, you can use Altium’s Annotation tool to automatically do it for you (Tools > Annotation > Annotate Schematics, then click Accept Changes (Create ECO)).

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