This short video demonstrates the way I do component placement in Altium Designer. The board in the video has more than 1200 components. Hope you find it useful.
Altium Designer – Component Placement Tutorial
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This short video demonstrates the way I do component placement in Altium Designer. The board in the video has more than 1200 components. Hope you find it useful.
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Hi,
your blog is very useful, can you also explain the roules for a best components placement? I’m newby in pcb design and I have some questions. I’m new in pcb design and I have some questions. For example, how can I place components to maximize electrical performance?
Thank you and sorry for my poor english
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Thank you Emanu,
when you work on a design, check design guides or datasheets. They normally speak about placement. Do not worry, I am sure you will learn it 😉
Have a great day,
– Robert
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Hi Robert, and thanks for your videos! They are a great resource, please keep making them.
Do you know if this method still works with AD15? I tried to reproduce it but cross-probe highlighting is cancelled once placement starts. Or do I have a bad setting somewhere? AD local support just told me there is no way to do what you do!
Thanks,
John
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Never mind I see Altium broke it in 14.1 as you explained here 😦
http://www.fedevel.com/designhelp/forum/main-forum/altium/29-component-placement-with-probe?view=thread
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Exatly! I loved that feature and they broke it 😦 I told Altium about it, but, maybe I am only the one using it, so they are not going to fix it because of me 🙂
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There will be very many people *trying* to use it, your video is the top result for “altium component placement”! 🙂
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I know, but for atlium, it’s just me asking for it. I told them, that every week I receive number of emails with “placement doesnt work” question.
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