The PCB Design Professionals

Moving components – 02

Do you have a component on your cursor and don’t know what to do with it? Hopefully this post will help.

There are two ways to move a part in Altium you can either click on the component and then drag it, or click the component and click the move selected objects button (which allows you to move the parts by a specific point).

Schematic & PCB

• Arrow Keys – Moves cursor 1 grid.

• Shift + Arrow Keys – Move cursor 10x grid.

• Spacebar – rotates components clockwise.

• Shift+Spacebar – rotates components anticlockwise.

• X – flips components on the X axis.

• Y – rotated components on the Y axis.

• TAB – bring up all the component information.

Just PCB

• L – toggles the layer that the component is on (top side/bottom side).

• CTRL+G allows you to change the placement grid for the component you have attached to your cursor.

• CTRL+D snaps components to the placement grid.

• TAB – Then change the x/y co-ordinates to where you would like the component to be.

***Warning do not use X or Y when placing a component in PCB Editor or your component footprint will be mirrored***

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