How to Use Rooms with Rules in Altium Designer

Rooms allow you to use rules on specific areas of your design. This helps immensely with properly defining trace widths and hole sizes for specific components. Learn how easy it is to assign rules to specific rooms in the PCB with Altium Designer.

0:00 Intro
0:11 What Can a Room be Used for?
1:14 How to Create a Room Rule
2:44 Rule Priority
2:52 Routing with the New Rule


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[werderden]

Dear Altium Team, I really like the idea this presents, but it feels cut short quite a bit. While trying this I found that rooms are only defined on top and bottom layer. Making routing directly under the BGA possible but does not take into account more complex VIA arrangements on other layers under the BGA. The rule will only apply to the layer the room is specified on, meaning on inner layers the global clearance will take over. Could you explain how to define a custom clearance on any layer for any setup region on the PCB, that would be great help.
Also one additional note, you should explain that you have disable settings for checking room differences while updating from the schematics. If this is not done the custom rooms will be deleted or they have to be manually deselected each time an import on changes from the schematics is performed. These videos are nicely done but I think really could benefit from a bit longer duration, usually you will have the very specific audience that will actually want to watch and don't have to be done in 3min. 5-10 will be totally fine. And yes this is free content and I am not complaining, just trying to give you some thoughts. Keep up the good work.