ALtium Dedigner 总结2

1.Document Tabs in the Documents Bar

   Documents that are open are allocated a tab at the top of the application. Click on the relevant tab to display that document and make it the active document for editing. To switch between documents the Ctrl + Tab shortcut can be used. You can also tweak how Ctrl + Tab works in the preferences.

Figure 5. Tabs showing various documents open, note how the PCB tab is highlighted, indicating that it is the document currently being edited.

Right-click menu in the Documents Bar

 

1. Right-click on any document tab in the Documents bar.

2. SelectTile All from the floating menu that appears. All the opened documents are tiled in multiple screen regions.

Note: The number of opened documents determines the number of regions.

3. Right-click on a document tab.

4. SelectClose from the menu

5. Position the cursor at the point where two regions of asplit screen meet and a double-headed arrow will display. Click and drag to resize.

6. Right-click on any one of the tabs in the tiled display and chooseMerge All. Notice that you have converted a split screen back to a single view.

用处：在PCB布局或布线的时候，可以与原理图有一个交互的联系，更加方便。

2.Dialogs

•Dialogs are used to set the parameters for various commands and objects.

• To move from one field to another in a dialog, press theTabkey or use the mouse. SHIFT+TAB takes you in the reverse direction.

• Most fields will have an underlined character associated with them that can be pressed (in combination with the ALT key) as an alternative to a mouse click.

• When a field is highlighted, typing can overwrite it.

• You’ll find nearly all dialogs will have a question mark icon in the top right hand corner. Clicking on this icon activates theWhat’s This Help (WTH) feature and will display a brief pop-up help message from the next control that you click on. For example, Figure 10 shows the WTH for theTypecontrol in the component properties dialog.

这里的帮助按钮是需要注意和以后应用的。

3. File management with the Storage Manager

     The Storage Manager is a system panel that allows you to perform a variety of file management tasks. When you open theStorage Manager (View » Workspace Panels » System » Storage Manager) it presents a folder/file view of the active project’s documents.

The Storage Managercan be used for:

• General everyday file management functions such as renaming and deleting files in the project or within the active project’s folder structure.

• Management of Altium Designer backups, using theLocal Historyfeature.

• As a Subversion compliant interface for your Altium Designer projects.

Note: Right-click in the different regions of the panel for options.

• As a CVS compliant (Concurrent Versions System) interface for your Altium Designer projects.

• As an SCC (Source Code Control) compliant version control interface for your Altium Designer projects.

• Performing a physical and electrical comparison of any 2 versions in theLocal History, or the CVSRevision list.

TheFoldersview on the left gives access to documents stored in the project folder hierarchy. Next to this theFilelist shows all documents in the selected folder. A number of highlighting modes are used to indicate the state of each document, press F1 when the cursor is over the panel for information on highlighting.

Figure 13. Use the Storage Manager to manage project files on the hard disk, and to interface to your Version control system.

Note: Press F1 over the panel for access to detailed help.

这个保存管理器可以帮助我们很容易找到历史存档。并且这里有一个非常重要的一点就是以后，有什么疑问就按F1，会出来Knowledge Center里面连接着安装中的整个HELP文档，非常有用！

4.Autosave and manual save backup options

Altium Designer supports two automatic file backup modes:

1. Backup-on-save – keep a backup whenever a user-initiated save action is performed (on by default). These files are saved in a History folder. The default is to create the History Folder below the active project folder, to configure an alternative central folder open the Local History page of the Version Control section of the Preferences dialog. History files are listed in the History section of the Storage Manager panel.

2. Timed backup – automatically save a copy of all open documents at a fixed time interval (off by default). Autosave settings, such as number of files and frequency of saves are configured in the Backup page of the DXP System section of the Preferences dialog.

    Both backup modes support multiple copies, using the naming convention of: OriginalFileName.~(number of save).DocExtension.Zip

    Backup files are automatically compressed to reduce file size.

这里讲的是关于文件备份的选项，我们在新建的PCB工程下面总会看到一个History的文件夹，这是Altium默认生成的备份分件夹，在我们每次保存文档的时候（如.sch,.lib等），在History中就会有相应的文件以压缩的形式保存。当我们需要浏览这些备份文件的时候去Storage Manager面板查看是很方便的。需要注意的还有在Preferences dialog对话框中的Version Control部分会有备份文件保存的时间，过了规定时间就会删除了。

所以我们可以应用上面讲的第二条，在Backup部分设定一个备份文件夹在到达备份时间后会有备份文件自动生成和保存