Hi,
my name is Robert Feranec,
I'm from FEDEVEL Academy
and in this video,
we are going to speak about a small but useful tip.
We are going to speak about different ways of selection in Altium Designer.
And
I need to tell you even I didn't know about this for a very long time, and
and
sometimes it was
because I didn't know about this,
sometimes
I tried to follow some youtube videos
and because I used different kind of selection method
then
my board was not behaving exactly
the same way as it was shown in the video.
And I was like... Noo, why it doesn't work,
they show it there it looks like it works
there... why it doesn't work in my board the same way?
And it was because of this.
Have a look!
This
vs. this.
And now you know, what we are going to talk about.
Basically, if you press left button on your mouse, hold it down
and when you try to
draw this
selection rectangle
from this top left corner
and when you finish drawing this
selection rectangle down here in bottom right corner, so release the left button.
Then
it is different comparing to drawing this selection rectangle from this top right corner to this bottom left corner.
And the difference is that when you use this method, when you use this blue rectangle,
then only the components or the objects which are completely inside of this blue rectangle
are going to be selected.
If you use this green rectangle then all the objects, not only the objects which are completely
inside but also the objects which are partially inside of this green rectangle are going to
be selected.
Okay?
So, if I draw this blue rectangle here what is going to be selected?
These 2 tracks which are here.
Okay?
However, if I draw exactly same rectangle but this way
what is going to be selected?
Not only these 2 tracks but also this one, this one, this one and also this one.
Yeah?
Ok?
And same way you can select objects also in the schematics, so if I'm going to schematic.
Let's say, if you would like to
select these 2 capacitors, so this way
nothing is going to be selected, this way
the capacitors are going to be selected.
If we would like to use this way, we need to select the capacitors completely.
But if we use exactly same selection rectangle but draw it this way, then not only the capacitors
will be selected but also some of the wires will be selected.
Okay?
This, this here.
And because we are speaking about this selection,
sometime ago I made a video also about how
to select tracks, but I know many people, they still don't know this trick.
So ..
Very often, if you need to select the whole track, which is on one layer,
then select one segment of the track
and press TAB on your keyboard.
Watch what is going to happen, so press TAB.
Yeah.
Then
the track,
which you selected
will be select... or ...
the track which is connected to this selected segment
is going to be selected on
the same layer.
ok?
If you would like to select the track completely
on all the layers, then press TAB again.
Now also the part of the track which is routed on different layers is selected.
Ok?
So, one more time
If you need to select
a track on one layer, then select one segment of the track,
press TAB once
and if you would like to select the complete net
also, all the tracks which are connected to the same net, then press TAB again, like this.
Very, very useful.
BTW: This layout what you can see here,
it is layout from our open source board,
it's called OpenRex
and if you like, you can go
or you can google for this iMX6 Rex.
Go on our website and if you like, you can completely download the Altium files and all
the manufacturing files of this project, and you can play with files, you can play with..,
or you can have a look on the PCB layout, you can have a look on the schematic.
We have more open source
projects,
if you go on the
main website of this iMX6 Rex, you
can find there also different boards.
This one is also very interesting, many people
have a look on the layout of this
module which is here.
Okay,
that's everything for today's video,
I really hope you found it useful, if yes please
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and
thank you very much for watching.
See you next time,
bye