Altium Designer 6.6 basics

[House_Cat]

I don't understand what you mean by "part items". Parts are sections of a component - like U1A, U1B, etc. The A, B, etc, are parts of U1 - is that what you mean. Are you talking about selecting on the schematic or the PCB?

 

[nzkunal]

I meant selecting only Object Kind: "Part" from a schematic. I suppose you could do it from the query builder but wondering if there is a shortcut.

 

[House_Cat]

I don't know what your overall goal is, but there are a number of ways to select only "parts".

- You can use the Schematic Filter panel with the query (ObjectKind = 'Part')
- You can use 'Find Similar Objects' from the right click menu
- You can set the 'Sch List Panel' to show only parts and select them in that Panel
- You can set 'Preferences>Schematic>Graphical Editing>Shift Click to Select>Primitives>Parts' so shift clicking to select will ONLY select Parts

Without knowing what you're trying to accomplish, it's difficult to know what to recommend.

 

[nzkunal]

What I am trying to do is hide part comments for all parts in schematic.

Just realised that I can do this by selecting everything and then selecting Include only "Parts" that works quite well

 

[nzkunal]

Am just trying to create rules for a design: creating classes etc. Only way I can find to do this is through Design-> Classes in the PCB file but when I try to update the schematic file I get a message "Differences cannot be resolved by ECO"

Is there anyway to resolve this? Alternatively can I create the rules in the actual schematic and update the rules that way?

Thanks

 

[House_Cat]

You cannot pass classes back from the PCB to the schematic in Alitum Designer. They can only be passed from the schematic to the PCB.

 

[nzkunal]

how do I set up classes in schematic?

Thanks

 

[nzkunal]

am trying to use a polygon to pour over a net. How do I configure the thickness of the connections between the polygon and solder pads on components? At the moment there are only 4 very thin connections between the polygon and the pad.

Thanks

 

[House_Cat]

You set up classes in the schematic by placing design directives on the affected nets ("Place>>Directives>>Net Class").

You control the width of the thermal connections in "Design>>Rules>>Polygon Connect Style".