The design rules of the Manufacturing category are described below. The Manufacturing category of design rules. Done - 26.6, at Beta release: disable Beta and Altium employee for the conditional box above, enable Beta and Altium employee for the conditional box below. When PCB.Rules.RuleSets is out of Closed Beta, at the Public release: delete the conditional box and the content above, remove the…

Altium Designer's PCB Editor uses the concept of Design Rules to define the requirements of a design. These rules collectively form an 'instruction set' for the PCB Editor to follow. They cover every aspect of the design - from routing widths, clearances, plane connection styles, routing via styles, and so on - and many of the rules can be monitored in real-time by the online Design Rule Checker …

Parent page: More about Schematics Related Resources Creating Connectivity Design Synchronization Compiling the Design What does it mean, to compile the design? And why does the design need to be compiled, why can't the software just keep track of the connectivity as you create it on your schematic? The software manages the connective data across the schematic and the PCB. Ultimately, the…

Parent page: Specifying the Design Requirements Altium Designer's PCB Editor uses the concept of Design Rules to define the requirements of a design. These rules collectively form an 'instruction set' for the PCB Editor to follow. They cover every aspect of the design - from routing widths, clearances, plane connection styles, routing via styles, and so on, and many of the rules can be monitored…

Design Rule Checking (DRC) is a powerful automated feature that checks both the logical and physical integrity of a design. Checks are made against any, or all enabled Design Rules, and can be made online - in real-time as you design - or as a batch process, with results listed in Altium Designer's Messages panel and a (optional) generated report. This feature should be used on every routed board…

Parent page: Design Rule Check (DRC) Configuring the DRC Configuration for design rule checking is performed in the Design Rule Checker dialog accessed through the Tools » Design Rule Check command from a PCB document. The Design Rule Checker dialog showing defaults with certain Online DRC checks disabled to improve PCB Editor performance. Use the associated options to include a design rule type…

Parent page: Defining, Scoping & Managing PCB Design Rules The Constraints Editor is a document-based user interface that offers an alternative approach for viewing, creating, and managing the design constraint rules used for your PCB layouts. The editor is arranged into six selectable rule sections of increasing priority – Nets, Diff Pairs, xSignals, Polygons, Components, and Advanced. In this…

Parent page: Design Rule Check (DRC) With care and attention and staged design rule checking along the way, running that final Batch DRC on the finished, fully routed board may yield only a few design violations, if any. However, there may be a sizable quantity of violations flagged, and now the task becomes one of resolving those violations. DRC reports generated by running a Batch DRC can…

Parent page: Design Rule Check (DRC) The software supports the ability to selectively waive any DRC violation. This allows you to effectively 'suppress' a violation that is considered not to be an issue without having to craft a special (and maybe complex) design rule to facilitate the design situation. Waiving a DRC Violation DRC violations can be waived by: Selecting the required violation(s)…

Parent page: Tutorial - A Complete Design Walkthrough with Altium Designer Main pages: PCB Design Rules Reference, Design Rule Checking (DRC) The PCB editor is a rules-driven design environment in which you can define many types of design rules that can be checked to ensure the integrity of your board. Typically you set up the design rules at the start of the design process. The online DRC…