Altium Designer Documentation
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Advanced Design Environment Topics in Altium Designer
Accessing, Defining & Managing System Preferences for Altium Designer
Defining Draftsman Preferences for Altium Designer
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The page in the Draftsman category of the Preferences dialog provides access to preferences relating to features and functionality of Draftsman.
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The Draftsman – Defaults page of the Preferences dialog allows you to configure the default values and settings for objects placed in a Draftsman document. These default settings can be overridden in the Draftsman Properties panel once an object or view has been placed in a document.
The Draftsman – Defaults page of the Preferences dialog
Default Primitives
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Primitives - use the drop-down to filter the list of primitives.
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Primitive List - a list of primitives that can be used in Draftsman (filtered in accordance with the chosen entry for the Primitives field above). Click on the desired primitive to .
All primitive default values are saved in the ADVPCB.DFT file. This file is located in the \Users\<ProfileName>\AppData\Roaming\Altium\Altium Designer <GUID> folder of the installation.
To view and edit the settings and options for each primitive, click on the desired entry in the Primitive List then update the default values. Information for each primitive can be found at the links below.