Congrats on finishing the schematic! At this point you should have no validation messages and have had a lead look over your schematic.

Settings

A copy of the settings I use can be found here: Altium Settings

Importing these should make it a bit easier to follow along, and it configures some of the defaults we use such as text size, etc.

You can import the full settings by clicking the settings icon in the top right next to the workspace name, choosing load from file in the bottom, and selecting the DXPPrf file. If you have already been using Altium and have custom settings you want to keep, you can just import the PCB defaults in PCB Editor → Defaults, and loading the dft file.

Importing to Layout

Go to Design → Update PCB to port over your schematic design to the layout. After hitting execute changes, you should be brought to the PCB design tab.

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Before you’ve started placement, its hard to determine how large your board should be, so typically I’ll leave the default size until I have a better sense of what the dimensions will be.

Component Placement

Moving Components

To move a component, you can click and hold them while dragging your mouse. Where you initially click on the component will determine where the snap point will be. For example, if you click and drag from the centre of a part, it’s the component origin that will snap to the grid. However, you can also click and drag from a component pad / hole, and it will be that feature that snaps to the grid instead. The snap point is shown by a green cross extending across the screen while you’re dragging.

You should almost always be dragging components by their origin, usually located in the middle of the part. Otherwise, components will no be aligned to the grid.

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