How to work with Net Classes in Altium Designer | PCB Layout

Net classes are very useful and make it easy to create design rules. In this video, learn different methods to create net classes in Altium Designer on both the schematic and the PCB.

0:00 Intro
0:29 Creating Net Classes
2:10 Alternative Net Class Creation Methods

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[daniellawton]

It's nice when a tutorial actually matches the menus! That is in fact, rare.

[salar]

Thank you for your excellent explanation, God bless you
3:16 I need to complete: in "User-Defined Classes" must chek the "Generate Net Classes" box.

[kicad_ca]

It has been proved to be a very useful technique in Altium Designer. Thanks for sharing.

[antonmilosevic]

Now with the new Constraint Manager update(s) none of this is possible. Altium killed a very very useful feature, and now the suggested way to go is to FIND OUT MANUALLY what nets are to be put in your net classes and add them, again, manually. What about importing Constraints (like it was for rules)? What about PCB Project Templates???? Now every new project is kind of a clean slate.

I really really don't get the thought process behind this change.

[jonnymakers]

How do you set that color orange so it is perfectly transparent? What is the color number and layer transparency?

[chaochang]

very useful I want to learn about differential pairs and how to set rules.