Altium Room Definition Schematic

The altium community hosts several online videos showing schematic features here.

Altium room definition schematic.

New altium users may not fully understand the benefits of organizing schematic sheets into a hierarchical top down or bottom up perspective. It is a region that assists in the placement of components. For example a click in the projects panel opens a schematic sheet another click opens the pcb and another click opens the outputjob file showing all the outputs you need to generate from the completed board. One of the great strengths of altium designer is how easily you can move between the various elements of your design.

Default constraints for the room definition rule. Working with schematics in altium designer presentation. Room locked allows you to lock the room in its current position within the design preventing accidental movement either manually or by the autoplacers. However design is much more than just having easy access to design.

The big advantage of using rooms in a multi channel design is that the pcb editor supports duplicating the placement and routing from one room channel. Rectangular or polygon type rooms can be placed on either the top or bottom layer of the board and can either be placed empty associating components at a later stage or placed around components in the design automatically associating them to the room. If the project is a multi channel design and the source and destination channels are members of the same channel class then format copying will be applied to the. A room is a primitive design object.

The altium online documentation system has a step by step tutorial of a simple design from beginning to end. Rectangular or polygon type rooms can be placed on either the top or bottom layer of the board and can either be placed empty associating components at a later stage or placed around components in the design automatically associating them to the room. As a result users often proceed with simple flat schematic designs without giving a second thought to project organization. Destination room this field contains the name of the destination room representing the channel from the schematic that the copied placement and routing will be applied to.

When you transfer a design from the schematic editor to the pcb editor the components from each sheet are clustered in a pcb placement room if room creation is enabled in the project options.