Re: How to import polygons in Altium
I'll try to convert them.
The first problem I see is - in Camtastic the shapes look filled which is wrong! In Altium you can import ONLY LINES. In an hour I'll send you the converted file
haha, that's funny. So, I want a filled shape in Altium. I open Altium, draw a filled shape, and I am wrong? Actually I am not wrong, I found out today that it works just fine to import any of them, with any of my previous methods, since they all resulted in the same thing, tracks of zero width in the shape that I wanted.
I found I was doing it right the first time. What I overlooked was the radio buttons at the top of the polygon pour properties that says "solid" and "outline" (and "hatched"). When you create a pour from selected objects, you get a polygon pour that is of type, "outline", which I called before, "a series of tracks for outlines, not a polygon". Turns out it
_is_ a polygon, but then there is one more step required to make it a 'normal' "solid" pour. I did not do this last step!! doh!
Even more better, once you have created such a thing in a PCB document, you can then copy and paste it into a footprint library, where it becomes a "region". So now I have the entire process worked out, DXF to footprint, which is something probably only an RF guy would want. In my case, AWR Microwave Office spits out DXF files of my complicated and precisely simulated RF layouts, and now I can make them "parts" in my Altium PCB projects for the rest of the design work.
Thanks all for the help, hopefully somebody reads this later and saves some time! Also thanks luben111; you put a lot of time into this for me, and I appreciate it.
P.S. I'm using version S09, maybe there were more DXF import problems in earlier versions.