3 Favorite Altium Designer Time-Savers

Discover the top 3 time-saving features in Altium Designer that every PCB designer should know! Tech Consultant Zach Peterson explains how these productivity-boosting hacks will make your workflow smoother and help you focus on what really matters.

First up is "Jump to Component," a powerful shortcut to locate any part in your schematic or PCB layout with just a few keystrokes. No more wasting time searching!

Next, Zach outlines "Silkscreen Preparation," a tool that automatically cleans up overlapping silkscreen elements, saving you the hassle of manual adjustments.

Finally, learn how "Supplier Link" gives you real-time part availability and pricing within the schematic, so you can skip the endless distributor searches. What are your favorite time-saving tricks? Let us know in the comments!

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[alexanderquilty]

I didn't know about the silkscreen feature! Awesome stuff 😁 I would love a whole video on some of this stuff.

[electroroomi]

If there was a shortcut for "Manufacturer Part Search" - that would have been great

[AlirezaKojouri-dpvz]

Is there any solution to creat supplier link for all schematic part at a samw time? (Creat supplier link by click on each of part in schematic is very time consuming solution and I prefer to export a bom and check that excel file in octopart!