If you ate viewing a board file in eagle pcb you may want to change the coordinate viewing from mm to mils. Then when i switch in millimeters, the system not switch really in mm, but convert only the same basic unit. Specifying units when entering the value mm or mil in this dialog will change the default measurement units for the document if not currently the default. Menu changes and switching units for altium 18 pcb design blog. The grid and schematic measurement units do apparently save as metric but opening a new schematic from a. How to change viewing from mm to mils in eagle pcb youtube.
If your pcb is double sided, you will need to solder a wire into the via to connect the topside track to the bottom side track. Choosing the view toggle units command from the main menus. I really hope its better for real users if someone can confirm that, it would be most appreci. I actually use both, in the same design sometimes, if i have a mixture of metric and imperial parts. These preferences can be found by clicking on the gear wheel in the upper right corner of the altium designer as shown below. Im using a trial on altium, where for i guess support ignores me altium designer version 19. Switching pcb design units from mm to mil altium resources. The board options dialog allows the designer to control special drawing features for pcb sheets access. This kind of flexibility, along with a host of other system settings and preferences, can save you lots of time and headaches when it comes to working on your pcb designs. Board options from the toolbar rightclick in the pcb editor and select options. The measurement is also displayed visually within the workspace, showing the measurements x, y, and direct distances. Click the home grids and units imperial or metric button on the ribbon. Specifying units when entering the value mil or mm will change the default measurement units for the document to those specified, if not currently the default. The table contains lists of metric values in mm for the snap grid, snap distance and visible grid for schematic projects.
Starting a new pcb design with setting a specific basic unit, with 24 decimal places of accuracy, for example. How to use altium designer to quickly create a component. Tutorial change unit and grip to mm altium designer youtube. Grids and units online documentation for altium products. To our immense relief, cad programs began to incorporate the ability to switch between units of measurement in their software, thereby.
If autoimperial is selected, the system will switch from mils to inches when the value is greater than 500mils. Altium presets click this button to select from a submenu of grid presets to restore the presets for the snap grid, snap distance and visible grid. When you first open up altium designer, before you even move to the snap grid, you can set up some preferences for working in the schematic. Nowadays you have to be able to accept input in various units. Altium designer is an excellent example of a pcb design system that allows the user to easily switch from mm to mil. Click to select from either metric mm or imperial mil units. In mentor pads and in altium designer there arent these problems. With altium designer, on the other hand, you can quickly create a component footprint with powerful cad tools. Altium designer, changing from imperic to metrics primitives wont. Creating your footprint in altium consists of 3 steps. The default units are always used if a units suffix mm or mil is not entered when specifying any distance related information in any dialog editing fields.
Default units are used to display any distance related information on screen or in reports. The board options dialog can be accessed in the following ways from the pcb editor, select design. This command can be accessed from the pcb editor, and pcb library editor, by. The measure distance dialog will appear, reporting the pointtopoint distance measured, the x horizontal distance, and the y vertical distance in both metric mm and imperial mil units. Altium designer 18 is an improvement over the previous version of the pcb software design package. The grid values can be modified or the checkboxes can be enableddisabled to toggle the visibility of each grid. The software will convert the value you selectedentered into the current units. In the package editor, for example, f19, f10, f11, and f12 all set up different grids, from. It doesnt really matter all that much with the software i use, as it.
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