Altium Designer: Output layer stack to manufacturing?

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The layer stack is specified in the Layer Stack Manager. I found myself manually have to draw the layer stack into a text file because i couldn't find any way to generate the layer stack configuration based on the information specified in the Layer Stack Manager. Surely there must be a better way...?

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There are several ways to print/plot the stackup. If you want to place the stackup diagram on your drill drawing layer or a mechanical layer, you use "Tools>Layer Stackup Legend", select a point for the first corner of the legend drawing, hit "Tab" to select what you want included on the legend, and then finish placing it. You will get a table/drawing of the stackup with the dimensioning and information you have selected.

You can also go to the "Design>Layer Stack Manager" and hit the button that says "Place Stackup Legend" to do the same as above.

Once having placed the stackup legend as above, you can copy it to the clipboard by selecting it and using "Edit>Copy". The image copied to the clipboard can then be pasted into a Microsoft Word document.

Finally, you can simply copy the picture that you see in the Layer Stack Manager. You do that by right clicking while the stack manager dialog is open, and select "Copy to Clipboard" from the right click menu. That image can then be pasted into a Word Document from the Windows clipboard.

Once you have your stackup in a Word document, you can then save it as a Word DOC file, or into a PDF or other image capable document type.

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Wonderful, House Cat! I will forward the layer stackup drawing to the PCB manufacturer