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What do you need to know about Altium Designer?
In the context of this tool, the term ‘Altium Designer component’ is used to describe a component instance placed on a schematic sheet or a component in a source schematic library. Altium Designer provides a tool for updating the parameters of Altium Designer components with information stored in an external database.
How is parameter mapping performed in Altium Designer?
Parameter mapping is performed on the Field Mappings tab of the intermediary link file. The dialog will initially show proposed updates to bring the Altium Designer component parameters into sync with those in the database based on the update actions you have defined in the intermediary link file (DBLink, DBLib, SVNDBLib).
How to update a schematic document in Altium?
Launching this command will open the Update Parameters From Database dialog. Use this dialog to choose which schematic documents and component types you want to include in the update. After defining the scope of the update, click OK. The external database will be queried for matching components.
How many ports are in the Arduino Due symbol?
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Altium Designer allows you to set up minimum, preferred, and maximum constraint values for your trace width rule and copper necessities (like copper thickness). You can also set up different width values for specific layers of the design.
Where do I find the width rule in Altium?
This rule defines the width of tracks placed on the copper (signal) layers. All design rules are created and managed within the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor dialog. For a high-level view of working with the design rules system, see Constraining the Design – Design Rules.
How to enforce minimum trace spacing in Altium Designer?
DFM requirements can also place very close limits on your trace spacing. There are two ways to enforce minimum PCB trace spacing and trace width routing rules in Altium Designer. The first is to specify the nets you want in each individual rule.
Where to find scope and constraint attributes in Altium?
To access the scope and constraint attributes for the rule, either click on the entry for the rule in the folder-tree pane or double-click on its entry in a summary list. The main editing window of the dialog will change to give access to the controls for defining the scope and constraint attributes for that rule.