Very useful / thanks ! You've covered them in parts in a lot of videos but I'd love it if you just did an episode going through all of your settings / preferences
Thank you Scott. Yeah, I should make a video about preferences, because every time I install a new version of Altium, everything works differently again. I am making a note.
Been using Altium for five years and the Pad Edge tip blew my mind. Going to make footprint validation on my current project much easier. Thanks Robert!
Not know about the ctrl nor the ! , absolutely useful and will streamline / speed up the normally time consuming foot print and pcb routing. Thanks for your time in discovering and sharing!
Thanks Robert, those are great tips! I didn't know the Ctrl-E or the ! trick. 8:22 when moving a group of components I've always used Move -> Selection (AD16). The keyboard shortcut is just M->S. Select the components you want to move. Press M, then S. The cursor changes and you get to pick the point where you want to hold them. Incidentally, that reference point can be _any_ point, even outside of the selection e.g. the pad of a nearby component (that you did not select) around which you'd like to rotate your selection. (On top of my head I can't remember other reasons why that may come in handy, but it does occasionally.)
I used to use Move Selection a lot ... but it is somehow messed up in AD20. Move Selection will be picking up the same points as shown in the video. Maybe they change some settings .. again ...
The exclamation mark shortcut is new to me, thanks for sharing, i used to select the object, go to edit, move by x, y and enter the offset value, the! is faster!!!!
Really awesome video. Another thing that's really useful is also changing snapping from current layer/all layers/none. It let's you have many layers selected and you can choose whether you want to snap to other layers or not.
Thank you very much. they are very useful. I am one of your students, funny thing I have to increase speed all of your videos by 1.5x to be able to watch. :D
Thank you Amir. PS: I watch almost all videos at speed between 1.5x to 2x (including my own videos) ... it is time saver and once you get used to it, it is actually a good speed to watch.
Ctrl + dragging via initiates move via then let go of ctrl to be on grid. You avoid having to select via first which can lead to some additional selects
very useful video, the exclamation mark is new to me, thank you very much for your videos, in Altium measuring airgap between copper pads in footprints is possible but is it possible to measure airgap between solder mask in footprints.
Hello Robert, first of all thank you so much for all the useful informations you gave. I am using Altium version 18.0.9 and i don't see the option for the "objects for snapping". I really love the "snap to the pad edges" feature. Probably this feature comes after the 19. Do you have any information about this situtation?
How do you know about this trick. Is it in release notes? Altium has lot of features but most peoples don't know about all. Where I can get all the useful tricks like this? I know about the Ctrl + E, because the related video recently given by altium in Altium software home page itself.
I swear that holding down CTRL when moving used to preserve the grid snapping while disabling the magnetic snapping. In the last couple of years I think they changed it so holding CTRL also disables the grid; very frustrating.
I knew none of these. Ctrl+E snapping blew my mind. It looks similar to Shift+Right-click snapping in Autocad. Up to now I had gotten into the habit of making any non-trivial footprint in Autocad because it is comfortable to draw 2D into, then importing it to Altium. Perhaps I'll start doing more natively.
Hey Robert, the "!" trick was new to me. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you pgpiotrek
New to me too. Is using ! to gang translate a new feature?
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Hello Robert. Both "!" and "CTR+E" tricks are COOOL and also new to me. Thank you for sharing with us !!
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Very useful / thanks !
You've covered them in parts in a lot of videos but I'd love it if you just did an episode going through all of your settings / preferences
Thank you Scott. Yeah, I should make a video about preferences, because every time I install a new version of Altium, everything works differently again. I am making a note.
except the last one 'drag and move' other tips are new to me thanks robert for sharing.
Thank you Robert, very nice tips!!
Grids and Snapping may sound simple but extremely useful!! Didn't know the one with the "!".
Thank you giannis
Did NOT know about this. Very useful. Thanks!!
Been using Altium for five years and the Pad Edge tip blew my mind. Going to make footprint validation on my current project much easier. Thanks Robert!
:) I really like that one too
Hi Robert, Very useful information! Your videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Im new in the Altium. Vonderful video !
Not know about the ctrl nor the ! , absolutely useful and will streamline / speed up the normally time consuming foot print and pcb routing. Thanks for your time in discovering and sharing!
I am happy it was useful info
I've been using altium for over 2 years and I had no idea! Thanks for the tips.
Thank you
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Two new tricks ! and CTRL E thanks :)
Thanks for sharing, that is really useful.
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I didn't know these tricks. Thank you!
Workaroud for the snap distance, route a diffrent Net in the Near. Great Video, !+/-x is for me very usefuul.
thank you Niklaus
Thanks Robert for the tips. I would like to ask, if you don't, how can I move/drag an object, say, in the x-direction only or in the y-direction only
The Pad Edge trick is extremely impressive. Thanks
I like it too
Thanks Robert, those are great tips! I didn't know the Ctrl-E or the ! trick.
8:22 when moving a group of components I've always used Move -> Selection (AD16). The keyboard shortcut is just M->S.
Select the components you want to move. Press M, then S. The cursor changes and you get to pick the point where you want to hold them.
Incidentally, that reference point can be _any_ point, even outside of the selection e.g. the pad of a nearby component (that you did not select) around which you'd like to rotate your selection. (On top of my head I can't remember other reasons why that may come in handy, but it does occasionally.)
I used to use Move Selection a lot ... but it is somehow messed up in AD20. Move Selection will be picking up the same points as shown in the video. Maybe they change some settings .. again ...
The exclamation mark shortcut is new to me, thanks for sharing, i used to select the object, go to edit, move by x, y and enter the offset value, the! is faster!!!!
Really awesome video. Another thing that's really useful is also changing snapping from current layer/all layers/none. It let's you have many layers selected and you can choose whether you want to snap to other layers or not.
Thank you supernumex.
Thanks for nice tricks.
Thanks for the nice lesson!
On AD 21.0.8 CTRL + E - works with the right CTRL button after 2 clicks. Is this the case with others?
Thanks Robert! I did not know about either the ! or the CTRL E shortcuts. I'm sure I'll be using them now though :)
Thank you very much. they are very useful.
I am one of your students, funny thing I have to increase speed all of your videos by 1.5x to be able to watch. :D
Thank you Amir. PS: I watch almost all videos at speed between 1.5x to 2x (including my own videos) ... it is time saver and once you get used to it, it is actually a good speed to watch.
Thank you very much to share these skills!
Thank you Sun Eric
Wonderfull. Very usefull when create foodprint lib
Thank you Tran
Didn't know about the ! trick. Nice!
:)
Ctrl + dragging via initiates move via then let go of ctrl to be on grid. You avoid having to select via first which can lead to some additional selects
very useful video, the exclamation mark is new to me, thank you very much for your videos, in Altium measuring airgap between copper pads in footprints is possible but is it possible to measure airgap between solder mask in footprints.
I would use CTRL - when you are holding CTRL, you can click anywhere. It is not going to snap to the mask, but still works oki.
@@RobertFeranec thank you for your reply
Very nice; quite helpful. Pity that Altium keeps these a secret!
Hey Robert,how to measure pin edges in 16.0.6
Didn’t knew both!
perfect robert, thank you!
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I got a bang out of it. !
love this🥰
Very helpfull tips
Thank you Michael
hahah wow where did you learn about this very nice. and lovely topic man I keep having issues with snapping.
I learned it from a video
Hello Robert, first of all thank you so much for all the useful informations you gave. I am using Altium version 18.0.9 and i don't see the option for the "objects for snapping". I really love the "snap to the pad edges" feature. Probably this feature comes after the 19. Do you have any information about this situtation?
Thank you Hizir. I am not sure when it was added.
I found these are very useful. However I am not able to use exclamation mark feature I guess my Altium version is old (20.0.09) (Build164)
It should work in AD20.
How do you know about this trick. Is it in release notes? Altium has lot of features but most peoples don't know about all. Where I can get all the useful tricks like this?
I know about the Ctrl + E, because the related video recently given by altium in Altium software home page itself.
I learned it from a different video.
Please do a video on rigid flex pcb designs.
I started working on one ... but waiting until Altium has better support for it
! Ctr-E Many thanks !!!
I swear that holding down CTRL when moving used to preserve the grid snapping while disabling the magnetic snapping. In the last couple of years I think they changed it so holding CTRL also disables the grid; very frustrating.
Still using Altium 2015, so not sure how much of this will apply? Why don't I upgrade? Not enough paying work to make it worth the expense. :-)
You can try, let me know if it works
I have been using Altium for 10 years, but I didn't know either the Ctrl+E shortcut or the "!" trick.
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I knew none of these. Ctrl+E snapping blew my mind. It looks similar to Shift+Right-click snapping in Autocad. Up to now I had gotten into the habit of making any non-trivial footprint in Autocad because it is comfortable to draw 2D into, then importing it to Altium. Perhaps I'll start doing more natively.
Yeah, they have something similar in Allegro and I use it a lot.
No. Not new for me. But thank's!
this action aviable from AD06... learn google: Altium SmartEdit
"!""ctrl+E" drag and move, I know none. Thank you