Rooms - Transparency

Here's a teaser. . . 

What's looks like a bunch of shorted nets?


Its a room !

This occurs when the Transparency setting is 0% for the rooms.

Fix: Change View Options > Transparency for Rooms to 60%

That's It !

Tear Drops - Bug

As shown below there is a bug in the tear drops, not all vias have tear drops.

Using Tools > Teardrops > Add > All > Vias

The work around:

Shelve the polygons first, then create the teardrops, then re-pour the Polygons.

Now the teardrops are properly generated.

Altium should alert the user to shelve the polygons before generating teardrops.

Idea: create a smarter algorithm for generating the teardrops.  Example ignore the teardrop / polygon violations while generating the teardrops, then fix the polygons during the next pour.

That's it !

Clearance Rule for Vias and Keepout

Vias violating clearance rule, where a No Net Keepout is being used.

Using the rule below I'm able use the keepout,  In the past I would replace the keepout with a polygon cutout. 

The end result is the same, however by using this rule I'm able to avoid creating the polygon cutout.

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Clearance Rule

OnLayer('L2 - GND PLANE') and IsKeepOut  

and 

IsVia


Different Nets

Min Clearance 3 mils (or what floats your boat).

That's It !

xSignals - Edit Class

In the PCB Panel you can Double Click on the xSignal Class to edit the Class.

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The formula xSignals uses to calculate the via-used length is:

StartLayerCopper/2+(Layers between StartLayerCopper and StopLayerCopper)+StopLayerCopper/2.

That's it!