Altium Designer 10 - Basics - Coloring multiple nets by batch (Placement/Routing)

If you want to color a selection of nets on your pcb,

Here are the steps:

1. On the PCB panel, you can select Nets from the dropdown menu.

2. Click anywhere on the whitespace below Net Classes (1 Highlighted).

3. Choose Add class on the popup menu.


This allows you to create a New Class for a selection of nets.

4. On the Edit Net Class window, you can choose the nets you would want to be included in the class.


The Name field is for the class name, and NewClass is the default name.

The name is user's preference.

The Non-Members are the nets to choose from.

5. By using Shift or Ctrl key, you can select the nets you want to be included in the class.

6. Clicking on the > symbol adds your selection to the created class.

For this example, we will pick and change the color for the best fit PE channels.

(Clicking on the >> adds all nets as members to the class, which is not our goal.)


Then OK to close the Edit Net Class window.

7. The net class created now appears on the list of net class.

Selecting it from the list gives a list of the nets included in the class.



8. Right click on the list of nets for the class and click Select all to select all nets.

(Pressing SHIFT and clicking from the start and end of the selection, is an alternative)

9. Right click again, choose Display override - Selected ON.



Notice that the nets that belong to the created class will be checked.

10. Right click again, choose Change net color and select the appropriate color.