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Monday, December 3, 2018
Altium Designer : Creating Custom Board Outline and Keepout Area
Adding a keep-out area along the board outline is a good design practice. The recommended keep-out line thickness is 20 mil.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Altium Designer: Useful Shortcuts for Component Placement
- Rotate counterclockwise by 90 degrees while moving an object: SPACEBAR
- Align selected objects by top edges: SHIFT + CTRL + T
- Distribute selected objects equally in the horizontal plane : SHIFT + CTRL + H
- Align selected objects by left edges: SHIFT + CTRL + L
- Align selected objects by right edges: SHIFT + CTRL + R
- Distribute selected objects equally in the vertical plane : SHIFT + CTRL + V
- Align selected objects to grid: SHIFT + CTRL + D
- Align selected objects by bottom edges: SHIFT + CTRL + B
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Altium Designer : Pcb Panelization
On the Place tab, Select Embedded Board Array/ Panelize. Click anywhere in the PCB area. Under the Properties menu, select your PCB and set the desired Column margin and Row spacing.
Altium Designer : Creating Board Outline From Mechanical Outline and Making Cutout Holes
Select Mechanical Outline. Under the Properties menu, Change the Mechanical outline layer to the user-defined board outline layer.
To create a custom board shape, select the board outline that has been created. On the Design Tab, in the board shape, select Define from selected Objects.
To create a cutout hole, select the desired outline. On the Tool Tab, in the Convert, select Create Boardcutout from selected primitives.
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