Electronic – Any-angle routing in Altium

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I have a design with a very thin and curvy board shape, so any-angle routing is absolutely required.

My favorite EDA software is Altium, so right now I have only two options, both bad, for how to route any-angle:

  1. Every time I want to change routes, export the design to another program that does allow any-angle routing, make the changes, and then import back to Altium
  2. Painstakingly change the x1,y1 x2,y2 values of every individual track segment using the "Properties" popup window

Clearly Altium can represent any-angle tracks just fine (since option 2 does work), there just isn't any way to use the standard mouse controls to do it!

Is there any way to configure Altium or use a plugin so that the mouse controls can freely change the x1,y1 x2,y2 of tracks without snapping to 45 degree angles?

Best Answer

Recent versions of Altium allow any-angle-routing. While routing, just click Shift+Space until the routing mode changes to any-angle. I'm pretty sure this has been supported at least as long as the program has been called "Altium".

Is there a way to modify already existing tracks in an any-angle way? (Other than deleting and remaking them?)

I'm not sure if you have to be in a certain mode or something, but usually if I just click-and-hold the endpoint of a trace segment, it will let me move the end without constraining the trace direction.

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