AD18 Video Series - Transition Guide

AD18 Video - Transition Guide - Link

Related links:

A Fresh User Interface for Altium DXP

Altium Designer 18.0 UI - FAQs

Using Database Libraries with 32-bit and 64-bit Altium Design Software on the same Computer:

Creating Layer Numbers & Stacking Stripes In Altium Designer

Creating Layer Numbers & Stacking Stripes In Altium Designer - OnTrack - YouTube

Presented by  Altium Senior FAE - Chris Carlson

How to Start an Altium User Group

Creating a local user group is a great way to meet local talent, find resources and share your experience.

The Basic Steps: (in logical order)

Identify Altium users in your area. Invite them to collaborate with you to create a local user group. 

You can post an invitation on the Altium Community Forum to let users know you are interested in starting a group.

Identify a hosting facility, this could be a local PCB design service, an assembly house, a PCB fabricator or your company's conference room.

Ask Altium if they have a Field Application Engineer in your area that can participate in the meetings to present new features and be available for Q&A sessions.

Create a group charter, you are welcome to copy the SDAUG Group Charter or use any part of it as a starting point for creating your group's charter.

Create a blog, I chose Blogger.com - It's easy and free.

Announce your first meeting, nominate and elect group officers.

Encourage all group members to participate and share their experience in the meetings.

best regards,

SDAUG Chairperson
Randy Clemmons CID+

Smart Track Ends

The gloss tracks issue described below has been fixed, nice work . . . 

DXP Preferences > PCB Editor > General > Smart Track Ends

With Smart Track Ends enabled you need to drag the skinny track to the end of the wide track before glossing.

Selected Track segments can be glossed to clean up overlapping tracks. Gloss Selected Tracks - Ctrl+Alt+G

Before Glossing

After Glossing

Clean Nets Documentation - Altium


Related Track Issues

Track over existing tracks gets deleted when placing track segments - Altium Forum

Bug ? PCB > Design > Netlist > Clean - Altium Discussion Forums


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Altium Designer Documentation | Online

Altium has done a great job of centralizing documentation for Altium Designer. 

The perfect place to start looking is at: Altium Designer Documentation:

Update Parameters - Failed to Find

Altium has some nice features for updating designs (schematics)

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For example in this design after selecting Update Parameters From Database a message pops up to alert the user that 3 parts were not found in the database.

Tip: Look for Database Messages.txt in your project folder.

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Polygon Tricks

1) Use Shift Click and Double Clicks to select Polygons.

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2) Use Shift Space-bar when editing vertices to toggle modes.

3) Hatched Polygon Trick (Bug #3579)

Hatched polygons are not obeying the polygon cutouts.

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Hatched Polygons Workaround (Treat)

Create a separate solid polygon and hatched polygon.

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Problem solved using a work-around:

More Altium's Tips and Tricks 


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