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PCB 2D and 3D views - Altium Designer Tutorial
From the course: Learning Altium
PCB 2D and 3D views
- [Instructor] While running through our PCB designs within Altium Designer, it might sometimes be useful to change into different views, say maybe a 3D view of my board here. So very simple to do. I can just navigate over to the View dropdown. Currently, of course, I'm in my 2D Layout Mode, but if I'd like, I could switch into 3d Layout Mode. This gives me a nice 3D view of my board here, and I can navigate in this by holding down the Shift key, and then if I right mouse button click on this orb that will appear, I can kind of rotate around my 3D object here. So as we can see, we can get a good idea of what my board may look like in a 3D design sense. Of course, when I'm actually building up my board, most likely, I'll want to be in the 2D layouts. So just the same, I would go back to my View dropdown and go back into my 2D Layout Mode. Generally, this is the view we will use most often in our board design, but sometimes it is useful to jump into a more 3D view just to get an idea of…
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