Draw Electrical Toolbar

The Draw Electrical toolbar provides shortcuts for commands to place components, pins, wires, and bus. The following table describes the icons on this toolbar.

Tool	Name	Description
	Select	Selects objects. This is the normal mode.
	Place part	Selects parts from a library for placement. Equivalent to the Part command on the Place menu.
	Place wire	Draws wires. shift allows any angle drawing. Equivalent to the Wire command on the Place menu.
	Auto Connect two points	Switches the Schematic page editor into the Auto connect mode and allows you to connect two points on the page.
	Auto Connect multi points	Switches the Schematic page editor into the Auto connect mode and allows you to connect multiple points on the page.
	Auto Connect multi points	Switches the Schematic page editor into the Auto connect mode and allows you to connect points to a bus.
	Place net alias	Places aliases on wires and buses. Equivalent to the Net Alias command on the Place menu.
	Place bus	Draws buses. shift allows any angle drawing. Equivalent to the Bus command on the Place menu.
	Place junction	Places or deletes junctions. Equivalent to the Junction command on the Place menu.
	Place bus entry	Draws bus entries. Equivalent to the Bus Entry command on the Place menu.
	Place power	Places power symbols. Equivalent to the Power command on the Place menu.
	Place ground	Places ground symbols. Equivalent to the Ground command on the Place menu.
	Place hierarchical block	Places hierarchical blocks. Equivalent to the Hierarchical Block command on the Place menu.
	Place port	Places hierarchical ports on schematic pages. Equivalent to the Hierarchical Port command on the Place menu.
	Place pin	Places hierarchical pins in the selected hierarchical block. Equiva-lent to the Hierarchical Pin command on the Place menu.
	Place off-page connector	Places off-page connectors. Equivalent to the Off-Page Connector command on the Place menu.
	Place no connect	Places no-connect symbols on pins. Equivalent to the No Connect command on the Place menu.
	Place line	Draws lines. Equivalent to the Line command on the Place menu.
	Place polyline	Draws polylines. shift allows any angle drawing. Equivalent to the Polyline command on the Place menu.
	Place rectangle	Draws rectangles. shift constrains the shape to a square. Equiva-lent to the Rectangle command on the Place menu.
	Place ellipse	Draws ellipses. shift constrains the shape to a circle. Equivalent to the Ellipse command on the Place menu.
	Place arc	Draws arcs. Equivalent to the Arc command on the Place menu.
	Place elliptical arc	Draws elliptical arcs. Equivalent to the Elliptical Arc command on the Place menu.
	Place bezier curve	Draws bezier curves. Equivalent to the Bezier Curve command on the Place menu.
	Place text	Places text. Equivalent to the Text command on the Place menu.
	Place IEEE Symbol	Places IEEE symbols. Equivalent to the IEEE Symbol command on the Place menu. This command is available in the Part Editor.
	Place Pin Array	Places pin arrays. Equivalent to the Pin Array command on the Place menu. This command is available in the Part Editor.
	Place Bundle	Opens the Bundle dialog box that allows you to create, modify, delete bus bundles. You can also import Xml bundle definitions into the current design.