Reach the peak of your engineering efficiency with activeroute. But then again, i have the default vias between layer 1 and last layer. Helpful tips for interactive routing in altium designer. A while ago in my database librarys chat channel, there was a really good discussion about shortcuts and how each of us customises his or her menus to be able to draw schematics and layout boards as quickly and efficiently as possible. Current length as well as valid length range is displayed dynamically using the gauge bar. Creating and modifying a project with altium designer. How to change layers while routing in altium on laptop. The activeroute feature puts routing control in the hands of the pcb designer. Cam editor shortcuts online documentation for altium. Everytime you modify something with an altium script, you should inform altium that you have done so, so that things like undoredo work correctly and altium knows that the file needs saving. They only work within the focused pcb drawing area. By its very nature, interactive routing is a process where the designer is busy interacting with their pc, moving the mouse and clicking to define vertices corners.
Working on learning altium, i came across a similar issue. While you are routing there are more shortcuts that you will find to be helpful. In may 2014, altium relocated their corporate headquarters to san diego, california. If youve never used altium before, youll soon see why they are needed when you see the menus for the first time. Pressed while routing then displays the appropriate interactive routing shortcut keys. Interactive routing online documentation for altium products. It is in noway a complete guide but just lists the ones youd normally care to remember. Environment shortcuts f1 access documentation library in context with object under cursor. How to use libraries in altium designer 19 youtube.
You may notice that although some keyboard shortcuts that perform the same function are. The interactive routing command is used to place tracks with associated net information. Instructor libraries are a critical aspectof altium designer. How to use altium designer most efficiently pcb design. Altium designer tutorial 6 for beginners auto route. On this video you will learn how use to autoroute and unroute your pcb using altium designer. I succeed in changing the mapping window shows the new mapping in the shortcut keys list however, the keys still dont work or. Jump to location, press intro after introducing the coordinates. Pcb routing is backed up by full support for pair swapping using altium designers new dynamic net assignment capabilities, an exciting concept that can swap not only unrouted net pairs, but also partially routed net pairs, allowing you to harness the full benefits of the fpgas reconfigurable design capabilities throughout the routing process. My guess is that because the vias werent created, altium cant move me to the next layers. This is a selection of some of the most useful shortcuts in altium.
Learn how altiums pcb design software has helped a wide range of companies succeed in designing nextgeneration electronic. Sit back and watch videos covering all aspects of using altium design solutions. Legacy documentation refer to the altium wiki for current. For example, the hotkey c draws an arc in sch, but draws a circle in pcb. Where altium designer differs from other windows applications is the way that it brings all of the editing tools that you need into the one environment. To help with this, altium designer provides a shortcut menu that can be used from within all interactive schematic and pcb commands. In this course, well take a look at the entire process of generating a pcb. This course shows how use altium to generate pcb designs, including pcb schematics and layouts. To help with this altium designer provides a shortcut menu that can be used from within all interactive schematic and pcb commands. Hi, im justin flett, and welcome to learning altium designer. Perhaps the single thing you can do to become more productive in any software environment is to learn the shortcut keys. To ease placement and routing, i created some layer pairs and two layer set topset, bottomset and then i clicked on hideshow button to assign meaningful. By its very nature, interactive routing is a process where the designer is busy interacting with their pc by moving the mouse and clicking to define vertices corners. Altium works with its design rules to build boundaries around objects such as net tracks, polygons, pads and vias.
Altium designers suite encompasses four main functional areas. Discover features you didnt know existed and get the most out of those you already know about. When i go into interactive routing mode pt in a pcb document, the. With the sphere displayed, rightclick and drag to change the orientation of the view. Altium designers interactive routing engine will automatically terminate the current track segment and start a new segment at the room boundary, to satisfy a rule such as this. The developers have anticipated every move you want to make while designing your pcb.
Altium is the worlds leading provider of pcb design software, pcb component and data management software and the host of altiumlive the industrys fastestgrowing conference for pcb designers and engineers. Consistent interface with other altium designer interactive routing tools ensures intuitive and quick control using familiar keyboard shortcuts. I was trying to remap the numical pad keys for next layer and previous layer to the characters. Altiums pcb design interface performs with intuitive menus. I finished my routing and proceeded to polygon pour for gnd plane. Cycle through connection lines modes during interactive routing. How do i flip and rotate components in altium designer. Altium designer notes and pcb design guidelines github. Easyeda not only provides lots of hotkeys, but also every hotkey can be reconfigured.
The shortcuts panel is populated with the list of shortcuts that apply to the currently open and focused document in the workspace. Tricks and shortcuts what you should know duration. Shortcuts online documentation for altium products. Rotates the 3d view so that the camera perspective is perpendicular to the. You can copy objects to the windows clipboard and paste them into other documents. To pick out specific nets, bring up the navigator panel while you have the schematic open. Press f1 over the dialog for more information about an option interactive routing shortcuts. If you try to use it while routing using the routing tool it will not work. The shortcuts gonna help you accelerate your work instead of. This is a list of my most used keyboard shortcuts and actions in altium designer. This site uses cookies to improve your user experience and to provide you with content we believe will be of interest to you.
We recently also sponsored your efforts with the open source ventilator project by giving your team access to licenses for altium designer 20. I was surprised to find the pour in between my 0805 caps pads as well. Eel3923eel4924 design 1 and 2 university of florida, electrical and computer eng. A wikistyle reference database for keyboard shortcuts. To change the width while routing, the following shortcuts are used. This guide provides a list of shortcut keys available for use within altium designer, ranging from those used at the environment level, through to those associated with. You can copypaste a tabletype selection from another application such as microsoft excel, or from any grid style control within altium designer. How to highlight nets in altium designer to simplify. Instructor justin flett helps you find your way around the altium interface and use all of the builtin tools, including the millions of components and symbols that come with altium libraries, to build a pcb project from the ground up. Shortcut keys online documentation for altium products. Altium sends the user to clear instructional steps for using commands and hotkeys. A routing width design rule scoped to set the width of all nets to 0. Start placing wires similar to p, t in the pcb designer.
Configure the interactive routing options to suit your preferences. While altium designer is a relatively easy program to start working with, there are so many tricks, shortcuts and extra options to be discovered which keeps me excited to always learn more. Schematic to fullyfunctional in thirty days with altium 365 judy warner. By keeping the panel visible on the desktop, the most relevant set of shortcut commands will be available while working on different types of documents. Altium designer update 1 the move component with relevant routing option was added to the interactive routing options. Sendmessage procedure, which is a member of both the schserver and pcbserver objects. Pcb shortcuts the following guideline describes important pcb shortcuts default settings. Dugan, youve been running altium designer on altium 365 at velocity research for a while now as part of our beta group.
So just take a look at some of our libraries and justnavigate over to my righthand side here and should be ableto find my libraries panel. The following shortcut keys are very useful for manipulating the view of the document window. Interactive routing shortcuts by its very nature, interactive routing is a process where the designer is busy interacting with their pc, moving the mouse and clicking to define vertices corners. Justin altium is a global leader in electronics, engineering, and design software used throughout numerous industries. It sounds like your best bet would be to get a full usb keyboard with a number pad and use that for altium. Display board insight and heads up display options. Altium techdocs are online documentation for altium products, providing the basic information you need to get the most out of our tools. I decided to create some kind of cheatsheet for personal reference and i believe that it can also be helpful for other users out there. The placevia command will only work when you are not in another tool. Schematic editing strategies online documentation for. Text can be copied from the windows clipboard into a schematic text frame.
You can reposition all of the altium panels, windows, etc. Access natural language search facility smart search hold ctrl while moving a panel. On this video i listed some tricks and shortcuts you will need when using altium designer. So a library is really any prebuilt componentand in altium were going to be using prebuiltelectronics components very often throughout our project. Coming from a much simpler software such as eagle cad, some of them took me a while to figure out. Because of this, the interactive router makes extensive use of shortcut. Altium designer 18 is an evolved intuitive tool built into a unified environment. When an interactive command is running, for example place. I will keep updating this post periodically with new stuff. Altium designer is a powerful design package that helps simplify the design and development of electronics and printed circuit boards. Set the track width to something from the predefined track width list.