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Which is Altium PCB do you use for silkscreen?
All component designators are already present in the drone PCB as they were transferred during the first project synchronization. Altium Designer has Top Overlay and Bottom Overlay layers that are used for silkscreen. Any primitives on these layers will eventually be applied to one of the external sides of the board during production.
How to hide all designator legend from silkscreen?
Altium Designer Hide all Designator Legend from Silkscreen? Trying to hide all my part designator from the silkscreen. Is there a faster way to hide all without individually double clicking on each part? Also is there a way to globally set the font and size of the designator.
Where are the designators on a silkscreen?
Fig. 6 – Bottom Overlay layer is active; the Bottom Layer is dimmed. Designators for CN1, CN2, U1, U5, U6, and U7 are placed.
Is there a way to hide all designator in DXP?
Another method is the global method, by using the DXP Preferences -> PCB Editor -> Defaults -> Component and activate the checkbox under Designator -> Hide. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
How to create a silkscreen for a PCB?
Let’s create a silkscreen for the PCB. Open the View Configuration panel. Make the Top Layer and Top Overlay layers visible. When setting up the Top Layer silkscreen, it is recommended that you use this configuration to prevent silkscreen objects from reaching the component pads.
Is there exclusionary silkscreen pour in Altium?
The kind of exclusionary silkscreen pour you’re asking for in the question is a cool idea, but as far as I know Altium doesn’t have the facilities for doing that. Anyways, the Altium documentation has a pretty good workup on how to add images to various layers.
Is it possible to add images to layers in Altium?
Anyways, the Altium documentation has a pretty good workup on how to add images to various layers. Also, it’s supposedly possible to paste various types of content (images, MS Word charts, etc…) directly into a PCB, but I was not able to get that functionality to work for me.