Routing through polygons in AD?

[jayk]

I'm currently evaluating AD 20.  In Orcad I can route through a polygon and Orcad modifies the polygon on the fly.  Is there a way to do this in Altium?   So far I've only been able to hide ('shelve') the polygon, do my routing and then re-pour it. 

Is there a way to make the outlines of shelved polygons visible?

[Pseudobyte]

I like to set the visibility of polygon's to draft and then also enable the dynamic settings in the main preferences.

Preferences >> PCB Editor >> Polygon Rebuild >> check both boxes

and I also like

In the view configuration panel:

View Options >> Object Visibility >> Polygons >> Draft [/]

[jayk]

Thanks a lot... this is just what I was looking for.

Have you used Altium for long?  What's your opinion of it relative to other tools?

[Pseudobyte]

Thanks a lot... this is just what I was looking for.

Have you used Altium for long?  What's your opinion of it relative to other tools?

It is very intuitive compared to most every other tool I've used. Quick to learn, hotkeys feel pretty natural.

For instance if you want to Place a Track you press P then T.

Feature wise it is definitely improving. I would really appreciate quality of life improvements that exist in other tools. Shape manipulation is pretty weak in Altium where as in Allegro it is pretty fantastic. The eyedropper they added in the 20.0 release made me very happy now it isn't a pain in the ass to set nets.

Altium is my preferred tool to work in.

[Elasia]

I love dynamic polygons.. just place/move the track or components and tell it to or let it auto regenerate, design rules make them pretty effective

I usually have one large polygon on the inner layers that are not represented by plane layers as well and my tracks/kos just cut out what they need from it

[ajb]

If you get into a lot of polygons or complex designs, you may want to shelve some of the larger polygons while routing, that way they're not taking time to repour constantly.  You can do that in the polygon manager, shortcut is T,G,M IIRC?  Just remember to unshelve and repour before creating fabrication outputs!