Complex Custom Selection Tools made EASY

Altium Designer has some nice ways of selecting and editing objects - such as Find Similar Objects, the Filter panel, and the highlighting engine.

You can also save your favourite queries, and even put them under custom toolbar buttons, making them a single-click solution. In fact, once you know this simple trick, you'll be able to create any number of single-click selection tools to put on your toolbar(s), making you much more efficient in your day-to-day editing.

Highlight complex net routes with Board Insight

Struggling to keep track of those important nets as you route your dense and complex board designs?

Why not put a few of Altium Designer's Board Insight features to work. Using them you can color and highlight specific nets in just the way that suits you.

Watch this video, and let me show you how.

Joining nets for Kelvin connections, RF parts and Planar Magnetics

Ground nets often need to be split up to control return currents and improve a product’s noise immunity and electromagnetic compatibility.

Sometimes figuring out how to make a controlled short circuit, impedance transformer, or planar inductor without violating design rules is painful, but it doesn't have to be. Net ties can be used to make it easy.

Watch this video, where I'll show you how they work.

Creating your own PCB panels for fabrication and assembly has a number of advantages

PCB panels are a standard part of the fabrication and assembly processes.


While you can let your fabricator create the panel, there are a number of advantages to doing yourself in Altium Designer, such as mixing boards on the panel and automatic panel updates when the source board design changes.

Watch the video, where I'll show you how easy it is to work with panels.