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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => Altium Designer => Topic started by: CopperCone on December 28, 2017, 11:57:30 pm

Title: sheet properties, where the fhell is it?
Post by: CopperCone on December 28, 2017, 11:57:30 pm

I want to change my sheet size from an A. I can't find the sheet properties they speak of. It's extremely frustrating.

Title: Re: sheet properties, where the fhell is it?
Post by: T3sl4co1l on December 29, 2017, 01:44:22 am

Design/Options (D, O).  You can set the sheet size manually, but you'll probably want to create your own templates including title block and default parameters.

Select a different template using Design / General Templates / [whatever].  You need to specify the path to your templates, and then they will show up in this menu.

Incidentally, the "standard" sheet sizes are nonsense.  'Letter' is not 8.5 x 11".  Better to set it custom.

Tim

Title: Re: sheet properties, where the fhell is it?
Post by: ajb on January 03, 2018, 08:48:29 pm

You can also just double click outside of the page area, this will bring up sheet properties in both AD18 and previous versions.

Quote from: T3sl4co1l on December 29, 2017, 01:44:22 am

Incidentally, the "standard" sheet sizes are nonsense.  'Letter' is not 8.5 x 11".  Better to set it custom.

Huh?  In AD17 and earlier sheet size is specified in schematic grid units (0.01in)*, but they appear to be right to me.  In AD18, sheet size is specified in mils, which is still a little silly, but somewhat less arbitrary.

* This also holds for importing DWG/DXF into the schematic, FYI, which isn't documented anywhere I've seen. Not sure if that part's changed in AD18.