Electrical Engineering & Electronics Design

OK so appear to have solved the off grid message errors. However the components still are not inline with the lines or tracks of the schematic. ?????

I work in program Capture CIS from Cadence Allegro, I have not yet seen the best designer program for schematics

I still have not solved the component alignment issue but I am new to this circuit design package. I will ask the altium community see what they say.

My normal circuit design software regarding schematic design and simulation particularly seems to be far superior as an early opinion however it is unfair of me to state that until I get used to solid works PCB.

Schematic grid should be set to 10, then select everything on the schematic and align all to grid using menu or hotkey. You may break some nets though, that is why the tool warns of off grid parts, they may look connected, but are not. For schematics, you want the grid so large everything is obviously connected or not. Then on the PCB you can use different grid for different density parts. I generally do connectors and big parts on 100 mil with absolute origin and fanouts on 1/2 the part pitch , which is probably metric, and with relative origin. Then set the grid to a reasonable density, and routing will connect between.

Many thanks Mike I will give that a try.

I was starting to consider if the issue was to do with when the schematic component was created using imperial or metric units or if it was misaligned from the grid when the component was created. I will certainly look in to it and give your thoughts a try. I have had to make this a side project to learn the software as it is taking to much time from my work.

I am getting much better with the software after help from Altium user tutorials. Solid works PCB tutorials are virtually non existent except for a few videos.