Routing Tools in Altium Designer
Since its introduction in 2002, Altium continues to add to and improve its flagship product, Altium Designer. Its routing tool is no exception. Altium rarely removes a routing feature, knowing that entrenched habits (a.k.a. muscle memory) play a key role in a user's ability to navigate the tool. For example, the hotkey sequence "P T" is still available even though the routing features were moved from the Place menu (hence the use of the letter 'P' for the start of the hotkey sequence) to the Routing menu.
There are so many little but useful features and shortcuts, that someone with years of experience in the tool may have forgotten them or may not have ever known about them.
This webinar will go through the features of the interactive routing tool in the PCB editor of Altium Designer. This includes the tilde key (~) and those tools that are available in the properties panel while interactively routing.
Whether you are new to Altium Designer or very well-seasoned, there is always a useful feature or shortcut to be discovered.
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TIMESTAMP PRIMITIVE COMMAND SHORTCUT
12:50, 18:03 Edit Commit Enter
18:13 Edit Help F1
9:12, 17:50 Edit Pause Interactive Process Tab
13:07, 18:00 Edit Suspend Esc
11:50, 18:12 Edit Undo Commit BkSp
47:48 Trace Add Accordions Shift + A
19:40 Trace Autocomplete Segments To Target CTRL+Click
42:56 Trace Change Routing Transition 6
36:22 Trace Choose Favorite Width Shift + W
11:26 Trace Cycle Corner Style Shift + Space
14:28, 24:33 Trace Cycle Glossing Effort Shift + Ctrl + G
35:35 Trace Cycle Track - Width Source 3
20:42 Trace Look Ahead Mode 1
45:19 Trace Next Routing Target 7
31:56 Trace Show Clearance Boundaries Ctrl + W
46:55 Trace Swap to Opposite Route Point 9
40:40 Trace Switch Layer For Current Trace L
34:05 Trace Toggle ‘Follow’ Mode Shift + F
9:47 Trace Toggle Elbow Side Space
49:18 Trace Toggle Length Gauge Shift + G
28:56 Trace Toggle Loop Removal Shift + D
23:00, 25:37 Trace Toggle Routing Mode Shift + R
44:00 Via Add Fanout Via and Suspend Num /
44:48 Via Add Via (No Layer Change) 2
52:18 Via Choose Favorite Via Size Shift + V
52:04 Via Cycle Via - Size Source 4
41:17 Via Drop a Via Ctrl + Shift + Mouse scroll
39:09 Via Next Layer Num +
39:09 Via Next Layer Num *
39:48 Via Previous Layer Num -
40:24 Via Select Layer Ctrl + L
43:42 Via Select Routing Transition 8