{"id":8357,"date":"2024-04-29T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T08:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuclearrambo.com\/wordpress\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:25:52","slug":"disable-the-altium-designer-constraints-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearrambo.com\/wordpress\/disable-the-altium-designer-constraints-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable the Altium Designer Constraints Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Altium Designer<\/a>‘s Constraint Manager acts as a central hub for managing all your PCB design rules, electrical properties like trace width, physical dimensions, and clearances. It simplifies organization by offering a table format for viewing and editing these rules, ensures consistency across your design by keeping them in one place, and tackles complex projects by allowing rule sets for specific object groups. Overall, Constraint Manager functions like a rulebook for your PCB design, promoting accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. Altium has tried to make the Constraints manager very versatile. It also allows us to create a set of rules that can be used in other projects by simply locating the rules file. Additionally, it also provides a query based input to create unique rules and constraints. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While all this sounds very nice, Altium seems to have rushed this feature out. It is ridden with bugs and quite a hassle to use. The most frustrating experience I had involved me trying to import a couple of differential net classes created in the schematic into the PCB. I spent several hours trying to find out if I was doing anything wrong. Afterall, it became apparent that Altium has problems with the constraints manager. I had to revert back to using the old Rules Manager and everything fell in place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n