Use the button at the bottom-right of the design space then select View Configuration or press the L shortcut key to display the panel. Their display state is also configured in the panel. Mechanical layers are added, edited and removed in the View Configuration panel. These individual/layer pairs can be included in printouts or in fabrication outputs, as required. Since pairs are used for component-related detail, they are called Component Layer Pairs.

As a pair of layers, for detail such as the component courtyard, that applies to a specific side of the board.An individual mechanical layer, being used for a task that does not apply to a specific side of the board, such as the board outline, or.There are two ways mechanical layers can be used, either as: In Altium Designer, this type of additional information is detailed on Mechanical Layers. It might be the board dimensions or the fabrication detail, it might be the component courtyards, or it might be the 3D component models. Transitioning from Numbered Mechanical Layers to Layer TypesĮven the simplest board needs design detail beyond the tracks and pads that implement the circuit.Naming Layers with a Layer Type Assigned.The Advantage of Assigning a Layer Type.Mechanical Layers and Component Layer Pairs.If it happens to be a problem too often, it could be a good excuse for making a special Altium script, I suppose. At at least it's pretty obvious when 3d bodies and courtyard layer primitives end up in the wrong layers. Will have to see how well the new layer types feature actually works, in keeping this stuff together. A shame that it seems these different settings are going to become the *default* for new Altium users, though. So at least I can keep things inline with the rest of my parts lib for now, it's only using parts from other people using different settings to generate footprints that needs to be considered. and mine seem set to what they have always been. had a quick look in my AD19, and it looks like the wizard has a dropdown list to select the mech layers to use for courtyard, assembly and component body info generation. have Altium changed the mech layer use for the IPC wizard? I hadn't noticed this yet - but I haven't used 18 or 19 that much, and may have only used it with my existing dblibs, come to think of it.

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