Sunday, March 29, 2020

Unique Identifiers

In AD18 and later you can enable Show Unique ID in Preferences > Advanced

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Source: Altium Online Forum





Restore Missing Panels Button - Altium

Panel Button in Lower Right Corner












You probably need turn on the Status bar. Click on View > Status Bar


Thank you Eric !


More Hard Ideas



Source: Altium's Online Forum
 AD20 Project Panel doesn't display

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Board Cutouts - Performance Issues

To select a Board Cutout use the PCB Filter:  

(ObjectKind = 'Region') And (IsBoardCutoutRegion = 'True')


Note: In AD20 Find Similar Object is creating expressions with IsCutoutRegion, which is incorrect, it should be IsBoardCutoutRegion


Also performance issues have been identified and should be fixed soon.


Links: 


AD20 slow when moving components in schematic and dragging is unusable in pcb editor - Altium Discussion Forums  

Altium BugCrunch #12874

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Saturday, February 22, 2020

So many Short Cuts

Try Pressing the R Key while dragging a component to cycle through placement options.
Try Holding down the Ctrl Key while Routing to Override Snapping Options.

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How to Identify which version of Altium was used to save a project

Interesting Discussion in the Altium Online Forum

How to identify which version of Altium was used to save a project - Altium Discussion Forums

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