An excellent tip from Marek! Thank you.
Be sure that in Preferences->PCB Editor->Display you UNCHECK these two options:
- Apply Mask During Interactive Editing
- Apply Highlight During Interactive Editing
When these settings are unchecked, when you will be placing components, the mask will stay ON!
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The video is in AD20 and yes, it is not as good as it used to be
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Thank You Robert,
Altium changes the UI between versions and If I correctly understand in version 20 is not possible "reposition selected component" in dim mode. Diplay will becom colored after presing that button.
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Hello Robert,
I am working on Advanced PCB Layout Course and I have the same problem with Altium 20
Maybe something wrong with PCB settings.
Do You know such problem with new Altium version?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pa...Bx0nsfNg2mRVX2
highlighting loses every time when I press reposition selected component.
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Tom, the SHIFT trick is NICE!!!!!! I tested it in AD17, it worksThank you!
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Thanks Robert, I forgot to check that page for the new "features".
I tried following the new way but I am getting the same issue, see this clip
However, I am pretty sure when I tried this on my work machine it worked - I will retry this and post the results. Both machines are running 17.1
I did notice that if you hold shift when making the first selection - I'm not sure if you are doing this or not in your video - that it works the same or similar to the old way, see this clip where I hold shift when selecting the first component
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This will help you: https://www.fedevel.com/academy/updates/ especially this: https://www.fedevel.com/welldoneblog...e-new-old-way/
Basically, Altium has broke that feature
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How to Cross Probe net then Reposition Selected Component without losing highlighting
I am working through one of the courses and see that a net or pin can be cross probed, which is then highlighted in the PCB, then select a component in the schematic and use Reposition Selected Component in the PCB, but when I go to select the component I lose the net highlighting.
I've uploaded a short clip of what I am doing on YouTube. I select Cross Probe, left click the VIN pin, right click to cancel the cross probe, left click the capacitor which then deselects the net highlighting.Recorded with http://screencast-o-matic.comTags: None
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