Questions tagged [altium]
Altium is integrated schematic capture and PCB design software.
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Altium 3D - Perspective view not showing tracks correctly [closed]
I'm having an issue with my 3D view in Altium. When I use perspective mode, the tracks seem to be "inside" the board, whereas ortho works ok.
When I open this same file on a different PC, it ...
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Rule for 5W Routing Differential Pair
I am working on a high speed design. To reduce the cross talk between the signals I need to implement a 5W rule (which means that the spacing between the signal pairs must be
a minimum of 5 times the ...
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Altium designer bus duplicate net names in hierarchical schematic
I have a Design with several subsheets. I'm having issues connecting i2c buses. Two sheets contain buses named IIC_SDA[1..25] and IIC_SCL[1..25].
When both of these sheets are placed inside the top ...
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Altium Designer Layer-Net Assignment Problem
In Altium Designer 24, I have 6 layers of signal.
In Layer1, Via's layer 1 is active and signal 1 is on layer 1.
In Layer2, Via's layer 2 is active and signal 2 is on layer 2.
But Altium allows me to ...
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Altium, via splitting instead of through-hole via
My question is regarding vias/routing. As you can see in the picture I want to have a via from the top to the bottom layer. The problem is that Altium always splits these, in fact through-hole via, ...
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Is it possible to do cumulative "strong" highlighting of Nets in Altium Designer?
Consider documenting certain multilayer traces in Altium Designer. The image show "weak" and "strong" highlighting, where strong highlighting occurs when holding SHIFT and hovering ...
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Variant won't affect Pick And Place - Altium CircuitMaker/Designer
I'm using Altium CircuitMaker. Which is a free basic version of Altium Designer.
I have a resistor called R111 and it's marked as Not Fitted. But when I'm going to generate Pick And Place, then the ...
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Altium Designer pad stack mid-layers
In Altium Designer, I want to create a stacked via. This via will be 60 th in inner layer 1 and 40 th in inner layer 2. So far I can create via but there is an extra mid-layers row is confusing me.
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55 A PCB - Too many stitching vias?
I'm designing a PCB (4 oz copper) that will carry 55 A at 12 V across it. Power (+12V_PSU) comes in from a through hole connector (Top Layer) well rated for that amount and then it connects to a ...
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Altium - About Custom Pad Shape
I’m trying to create the footprint for the Snaptron BL12340 dome switch in Altium Designer 24:
https://www.snaptron.com/products/pcb-pads/single-sided-with-center-led-contact-pad/
The problem is with ...
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How to create custom plated slot/pad in Altium
I need to create a mounting hole in the board where a certain degree of rotation is required.
Since this is a non-standard mounting hole, I decided to make it using a board cutout to at least define ...
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How do I remove a dotted line hole in a pcb?
I'm new too Altium so I'm not sure if I'm just missing something obvious or not.
There's a multilayer hole in a pcb file I'm working with, and I just can't delete the hole, and have the pcb return to ...
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Failure to detect net connection error in DRC in ALTIUM DESIGNER
I designed a PCB in Altium Designer. The problem is that the ground nets are not connected after fabrication and test. unfortunately, the software does not give an error or warning for this issue ...
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Altium Fabrication Outputs Final don't Show Vias on Pads
I have place some vias on the drain pad from a mosfet to connect the top with the bottom fill area for better heat dissipation. On the Fabrication Outputs Final the vias don't display on the top layer ...
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Which parameter in Altium Designer is used to specify the crystal frequency in the Properties section of that component?
As you can see in the image below, there is a circuit connected to the HSE section of the STM32F103C8T6 microcontroller. This ...
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