Once the Customizing PCB Editor dialog is open a new toolbar icon appears titled PCB Shortcuts with a dropdown menu structure, as seen in Figure 3.įigure 3: From the Customizing PCB Editor, click PCB Shortcuts.Įach feature of the printed circuit board PCB editor which can be assigned to a shortcut key is available on this drop-down menu. The shortcut keys may be mapped to coincide with the familiar features of a former tool. This can also be useful when transitioning from a previous PCB design program or another EDA tool to Altium Designer. Mapping the shortcut keys of the PCB design software package to features which may be more intuitive to the individual. A new blank PCB document was first opened in order to bring focus to the PCB editor and then the Customizing Editor opened.įigure 2: The Customizing Editor has choices specific to the editor being customized. The Customizing Editor dialog for each editor is specific to that editor and the title bar reflects which editor is being customized, in this case in Figure 2, the PCB editor. See Figure 1.įigure 1: Access the Customizing Editor via the dropdown or double-clicking in the open area of the toolbars. Alternatively, you can double-click in the open area of the toolbars. The Customizing Editor is accessed from the top toolbar DXP > Customize. The specific editor to be customized must be the active open editor. Go to the Customizing Editor, which is specific to each of the editor domains.
If you want to customize Altium Designer PCB design software for better efficiency, modifying the editors is a great place to start. In this paper, we will focus on customization of the PCB editor, however, the customization features discussed can be extended to all other editors within the Altium Designer environment. Whichever editor you are working in, the same approach may be taken in any of the other platform editors. Customization is centric to each editor whether it’s the PCB editor, schematic capture or any other editor within the Altium Designer environment. Once you have been using Altium Designer for a while for your PCB design and PCB layout work, you’ll find the toolbar menu structure to be very intuitive, however, it’s possible to personalize or customize Altium Designer for better efficiency.
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