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.

Altium room definition schematic.

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. 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. It is a region that assists in the placement of components. One of the great strengths of altium designer is how easily you can move between the various elements of your design.

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. 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. However design is much more than just having easy access to design. The altium community hosts several online videos showing schematic features here.

Default constraints for the room definition rule. The altium online documentation system has a step by step tutorial of a simple design from beginning to end. If you attempt to move the room when it has been locked a warning dialog will appear asking whether you wish to go ahead with the move. 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.

A room is a primitive design object. 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. A room is a primitive design object. Room locked allows you to lock the room in its current position within the design preventing accidental movement either manually or by the autoplacers.

Working with schematics in altium designer presentation.