Auto Place and Route with Altium Designer

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Auto Place and Route with Altium Designer

When designing a PCB, in order to improve efficiency, we need to learn how to automatically place and route our projects. In this tutorial, we will introduce the auto place and route in Altium Designer.

Auto Placing Components

1. Select the components to be placed automatically in the PCB, generally according to the circuit module.

Select Components to be Placed Automatically
Select Components to be Placed Automatically

2. Select Tools-Component Placement-Reposition Selected Components in the menu bar.

Reposition Selected Components
Reposition Selected Components

3. Place the components according to the circuit requirements, and click the left button to complete.

Automatically Place Components as Required
Automatically Place Components as Required

Auto Routing

First, open the Altium Designer software, then open your own PCB file.

Open the PCB file in Altium Designer
Open the PCB file in Altium Designer

The figure below is an example of a PCB file that has been laid out, and now we want to automatically route it.

Finish Auto Placing Components
Finish Auto Placing Components

Select Auto Route – ALL. Route the entire PCB diagram.

Prepare to Auto Route PCB
Prepare to Auto Route PCB

In the pop-up dialog box, here you can edit layer directions and rules, select routing strategy, and then click “Route All” in the lower right corner to perform automatic routing.

Situs_Routing_Strategies-transformed
Situs_Routing_Strategies-transformed

The figure below is the process of routing and the result after completion.

Start Auto Routing
Start Auto Routing
Finish Auto Routing
Finish Auto Routing

The final step is to manually modify the routing. Although the auto routing is efficient, there may be deviations in the thickness and direction of some lines, which we need to check and correct manually.

Check & Correct Routing Manually
Check & Correct Routing Manually

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Aidan Taylor

I am Aidan Taylor and I have over 10 years of experience in the field of PCB Reverse Engineering, PCB design and IC Unlock.

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