Altium Designer Design info

Hi,

In the pcb file for SpiritLevel-SL1 Reference design in the examples there is a layer called design information which contains design information to the right of the PCB.

I wanted to know is there an easy way to create this? Or do you have to one by one draw the lines and all the text etc.

Thanks

You could copy the information from the example onto your board, and then edit it to suit your needs. Just open the example board, select the table with either drag-click or Select Inside (shortcut SI), and then copy with CTRL+C, or CTRL+Insert, or Edit>Copy, etc, and then open your new PCB and paste it on whatever layer you want.

None of the EDA programs produce the fab data automatically. In Altium Designer, like all the rest, you have to manually build the fab data according to your company's practices and needs, or you need to copy it from another document and paste it in.

Version 6.9 of Altium Designer lets you copy to the Windows clipboard from any document, and paste into a PCB. So you could have a Word document with your fab notes, copy it to the clipboard, and then paste it onto your PCB. You can even size the information as it's pasted.

Thanks Housecat