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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => Altium Designer => Topic started by: pyfffe on March 10, 2025, 07:11:45 pm

Title: A way to autoremove graphics overlap peaces
Post by: pyfffe on March 10, 2025, 07:11:45 pm

Hello. I'm a beginner in Altium Designer. I want to import png image to PCB as a large silkscreen via Place > Graphics, like on this screen (the board itself doesn't matter  ;D).

The problem is that after importing, the silkscreen layer overlaps the components. Is there a some method to autoremove particular silkscreen peaces?  Or polygon exclusion in graphic import stage, or something other than manual png redrawing

Title: Re: A way to autoremove graphics overlap peaces
Post by: thm_w on March 10, 2025, 08:50:45 pm

Looks like you can clip to exposed copper: https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/preparing-silkscreen-pcb?srsltid=AfmBOoprPu-ToaMnGkqmytAOE8UItTNsmtKCHfyOIblhlok9bYav9Kbv (https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/preparing-silkscreen-pcb?srsltid=AfmBOoprPu-ToaMnGkqmytAOE8UItTNsmtKCHfyOIblhlok9bYav9Kbv)

Or you can just leave it and the board house will do it for you. JLC or similar won't care, this is part of the normal procedure.

Title: Re: A way to autoremove graphics overlap peaces
Post by: pyfffe on March 11, 2025, 04:17:22 pm

Yes, that's it. I tried this feature but with wrong settings. Tkanks a lot!