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Offline ajbTopic starter

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PCB Drawing Layouts
« on: August 18, 2015, 08:35:11 pm »
Is there a reasonable way to setup and control multiple drawing sheets of a PCB with individual title blocks, borders, annotations, etc within Altium?  From what I can tell you can only have one PCB sheet per PCBDoc, and it affords little to no capacity for per-drawing formatting.

Is the only way to do this to either include a title block and border on every mechanical layer you intend to plot, or dedicate a mechanical layer to title and border for each scale/orientation you need?  I'm thinking the latter would be easiest to deal with, but still seems rather clunky.  Maybe I've just been spoiled by e.g. AutoCAD's paperspace layouts and am expecting too much from an EDA package?


How do you folks handle creating nicely-laid out drawing sheets for documentation? 
 

Offline armandas

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Re: PCB Drawing Layouts
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2015, 08:17:41 pm »
I've just drawn the sheet border and the title block on the three layers I need.
  • Mechanical 32: Main sheet (enabled through board options menu) with all the PCB specs.
  • Mechanical 15/16: Assembly outline for top and bottom layers.
 


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