At the end of this course, you will be able to design a PCB in Altium Designer for your circuit knowing all the. Getting the 2D and 3D Layouts of the PCB. Creating libraries for some standard ICs. Then, after your board is well into the upper right quadrant, you can use the Edit ► Origin ► Set command to place a relative origin wherever it works best for you as your 0,0 location. Creating libraries for two or three terminal components. Alternatively, you can access the panel through the View Workspace Panels PCB PCB sub-menu. Then you can move all your current work into the upper right quadrant by using Ctrl+A to select everything, then use Edit ► Move ► Move Selection to get a cross-hair pointer, use this to click a reference point and then move the cross-hair to where you would like the reference point to go. To display the PCB Library panel, click the PCB button at the bottom-right of Altium Designer when the PCB Editor is active and select the PCB Library entry from the pop-up menu. To reset the Origin, use Edit ► Origin ► Reset. Everything you do should be above and to the right of this point. To determine the current location of the absolute origin, you can use Edit ► Jump ► Absolute Origin, your cursor will jump to the original Absolute Origin. (Click and hold an Active Bar button to access other related commands. Font - use the controls to select the desired font, font size, color. Click the Fill button () in the drop-down on the Active Bar located at the top of the workspace. You First PCB With Altium Designer: Ive recently started exploring PCB design and. required union after You would have to duplicate the library and re-size parts, then replace them in the schematic. There is a ten foot square area that you can use in the upper right quadrant to place your board and work on it. PCB Library Editor - the following methods of access are available: Choose Place Fill from the main menus. Solution Details Altium restricts component placement and routing to the Positive|Positive quadrant. It would be best to move the whole board. When i was creating a footprint i found that. From there the workspace extends to the top and to the right, but you cannot reach any points below absolute zero. Toe, Heel and Side size in PCB library expert and Altium Designer Posted by jtronix on 06 Aug, 2018 09:11. Move components left or down not working? Probably because you have reached the absolute zero coordinate.