How To Define and Place Vias in Altium Designer?

Many users of Altium Designer come from using other CAD tools like Cadence Allegro, OrCAD, P-CAD, or Mentor PADS. In most other professional PCB design tools, vias (the plated through connections that link copper traces on different board layers) are pre-defined in libraries using what's typically called "Pad Stacks".

While it's possible to pre-defined "Pad Stacks" and "Pad and Via Libraries" in Altium Designer, it's usually a much less efficient way to define vias for many board designs. In Altium Designer, the default way, is usually the best.

In this video, I show you exactly how to define vias based on rules, which you can easily define and prioritize for different nets or net classes.

In a future video I'll expand on this topic and show how the pad and via libraries work in Altium Designer so you can also do things that way. So be sure to subscribe and hit the notify bell so when new tutorials are released you will be in the know!

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