Rotates the 3d view so that the camera perspective is perpendicular to the. Altium techdocs are online documentation for altium products, providing the basic information you need to get the most out of our tools. Because of this, the interactive router makes extensive use of shortcut. To pick out specific nets, bring up the navigator panel while you have the schematic open. Legacy documentation refer to the altium wiki for current. How do i flip and rotate components in altium designer. To change the width while routing, the following shortcuts are used. How to use libraries in altium designer 19 youtube. How to change layers while routing in altium on laptop. I was surprised to find the pour in between my 0805 caps pads as well. To help with this, altium designer provides a shortcut menu that can be used from within all interactive schematic and pcb commands.
With the sphere displayed, rightclick and drag to change the orientation of the view. For example, the hotkey c draws an arc in sch, but draws a circle in pcb. Current length as well as valid length range is displayed dynamically using the gauge bar. Shortcut keys online documentation for altium products. This course shows how use altium to generate pcb designs, including pcb schematics and layouts. You can reposition all of the altium panels, windows, etc. Altium designer update 1 the move component with relevant routing option was added to the interactive routing options. 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. Pcb shortcuts the following guideline describes important pcb shortcuts default settings.
Altiums pcb design interface performs with intuitive menus. You can copypaste a tabletype selection from another application such as microsoft excel, or from any grid style control within altium designer. Display board insight and heads up display options. The developers have anticipated every move you want to make while designing your pcb. Instructor libraries are a critical aspectof altium designer. The shortcuts panel is populated with the list of shortcuts that apply to the currently open and focused document in the workspace. Altium designer is a powerful design package that helps simplify the design and development of electronics and printed circuit boards. They only work within the focused pcb drawing area. Configure the interactive routing options to suit your preferences. The following shortcut keys are very useful for manipulating the view of the document window. Interactive routing online documentation for altium products.
In this course, well take a look at the entire process of generating a pcb. How to use altium designer most efficiently pcb design. Sendmessage procedure, which is a member of both the schserver and pcbserver objects. This is a list of my most used keyboard shortcuts and actions in altium designer. In may 2014, altium relocated their corporate headquarters to san diego, california. You may notice that although some keyboard shortcuts that perform the same function are. It sounds like your best bet would be to get a full usb keyboard with a number pad and use that for altium. To help with this altium designer provides a shortcut menu that can be used from within all interactive schematic and pcb commands. Altium designers suite encompasses four main functional areas. Jump to location, press intro after introducing the coordinates. Creating and modifying a project with 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. I succeed in changing the mapping window shows the new mapping in the shortcut keys list however, the keys still dont work or. Schematic editing strategies online documentation for. On this video you will learn how use to autoroute and unroute your pcb using altium designer. Helpful tips for interactive routing in altium designer. 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. You can copy objects to the windows clipboard and paste them into other documents. Easyeda not only provides lots of hotkeys, but also every hotkey can be reconfigured. Working on learning altium, i came across a similar issue.
It is in noway a complete guide but just lists the ones youd normally care to remember. If youve never used altium before, youll soon see why they are needed when you see the menus for the first time. So a library is really any prebuilt componentand in altium were going to be using prebuiltelectronics components very often throughout our project. Hi, im justin flett, and welcome to learning altium designer. Discover features you didnt know existed and get the most out of those you already know about. On this video i listed some tricks and shortcuts you will need when using altium designer. 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. Cam editor shortcuts online documentation for altium. 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 activeroute feature puts routing control in the hands of the pcb designer.
Press f1 over the dialog for more information about an option interactive routing shortcuts. Altium designer 18 is an evolved intuitive tool built into a unified environment. Pressed while routing then displays the appropriate interactive routing shortcut keys. My guess is that because the vias werent created, altium cant move me to the next layers. Sit back and watch videos covering all aspects of using altium design solutions. Access natural language search facility smart search hold ctrl while moving a panel. Coming from a much simpler software such as eagle cad, some of them took me a while to figure out. 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. We recently also sponsored your efforts with the open source ventilator project by giving your team access to licenses for altium designer 20. Cycle through connection lines modes during interactive routing. 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. Consistent interface with other altium designer interactive routing tools ensures intuitive and quick control using familiar keyboard shortcuts. Schematic to fullyfunctional in thirty days with altium 365 judy warner. I finished my routing and proceeded to polygon pour for gnd plane. Perhaps the single thing you can do to become more productive in any software environment is to learn the shortcut keys. 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 interactive routing command is used to place tracks with associated net information. 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.
Set the track width to something from the predefined track width list. Reach the peak of your engineering efficiency with activeroute. 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. If you click on the interactive routing button outlined in a red box in the image below at the top of the panel, you will see the cursor change, allowing you to select a specific connection in your schematic. While you are routing there are more shortcuts that you will find to be helpful. How to highlight nets in altium designer to simplify. 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. The shortcuts gonna help you accelerate your work instead of. Eel3923eel4924 design 1 and 2 university of florida, electrical and computer eng. But then again, i have the default vias between layer 1 and last layer. 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. If you try to use it while routing using the routing tool it will not work.
When an interactive command is running, for example place. 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. A routing width design rule scoped to set the width of all nets to 0. 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. I will keep updating this post periodically with new stuff. Shortcuts online documentation for altium products. Im pretty frustrated, ive gone through the settings in altium so many times and still cant get push routing or any interactive routing feature to work. 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. Altium works with its design rules to build boundaries around objects such as net tracks, polygons, pads and vias. Tricks and shortcuts what you should know duration. 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.
Dugan, youve been running altium designer on altium 365 at velocity research for a while now as part of our beta group. 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. Start placing wires similar to p, t in the pcb designer. Justin altium is a global leader in electronics, engineering, and design software used throughout numerous industries. The placevia command will only work when you are not in another tool. Altium designer notes and pcb design guidelines github. Altium designer tutorial 6 for beginners auto route. This site uses cookies to improve your user experience and to provide you with content we believe will be of interest to you. When i go into interactive routing mode pt in a pcb document, the.