How to Create PCB Templates

alexsander_altium — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:29:59 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by alexsander_altium on 10/6/2021 9:29:59 PM

Creating PCB templates in CircuitStudio is possible but as of now there is not a way to do this within the software. This answer is more of a work around but we are expecting to include this in future release.

To create a template to CircuitStudio here is what you'll have to do:

1. Create your project you want to use as a template

2. Give the project, schematic, and PCB files the same name (file extension can be different)

Example:

MyTemplate.PrjPCB

MyTemplate.CSPCBDoc

MyTemplate.SCHDoc

3. Save these files here: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Altium\CS\Templates\PCB Projects

4. Add to the "PCB Project Templates.ini" file in the same folder as step 3

Using step 2 as an example we would put an entry into the INI as follows

[MyTemplate]

Category=Custom

Title= My custom project template

Description=Starter PCB w/title block, Schematic with Titleblock, Project with options set.

(you can also add an EMF image of the same name if you want a visual preview)

5. Restart / open CircuitStudio

6. Create a new project : File>New Project Here you should see a custom category in the templates list

Tags: template, circuitstudio