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Grids and units - Altium Designer Tutorial
From the course: Learning Altium
Grids and units
- [Instructor] So, one of the first things you'll want to set up correctly when starting off your PCB Board designs is to make sure that your units and your grids are correctly set up for your project. So let's take a look at this project initially. Doesn't look like there's even any grid at all. Actually, if I zoom in a little bit here, I can see that, in fact, there is a grid with some dots and some lines here as I zoom in further and further. So the reasoning behind that is just that my grid is fairly small, compared to my entire board size here. If I want to change that really quickly, I can just hit the G key for grid and I can change my grid size. I believe right now it's at five millimeter. I want to change that to 100 mill so the grid size will be a little bit larger and between grid steps will be larger. And now, I can see those dots and those spaces coming in much larger so just for placing components now, it will be spaced 100 mill apart instead of say, five mill apart…
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