Navigation in Altium Designer
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Navigation
To aid navigation of design documents, Altium Designer provides a dedicated Navigation bar (shown below) accessed from within any of the application's document editors.
Alternatively, the Navigation bar can be displayed at the top of each document editing window, as shown below. In this mode the bar also includes the traditional web browser Refresh, Cancel Load and Favorites buttons. Views added to the Favorites can be recalled via the Favorites panel, accessible via the System button at the lower right of the environment.
Direct Document Navigation
The field at the left of the bar enables you to navigate to any directory or document on any network or local storage medium, as well as any page on the internet. Type or paste the destination address into the field and press the ENTER key. The destination directory or document will open as the active view in the main design window.
- Destination addresses for directories and folders on local or network storage mediums take the form:
file:///RootDirectory:/Path/Document - Destination addresses for documents on the internet take the standard URL form:
http://WebAddress - All Altium Designer integrated navigation support pages take the form:
DXP://DocumentName - The field in which you enter the destination address is actually a drop-down list which provides a history of all destination addresses (valid and invalid) which have been previously entered. This history list is not persistent across design sessions, it is cleared upon exiting the software.
Browsing Viewed Documents
The left and right arrow buttons allow you to effectively pass back and forth through documents that have previously been opened as active views in the main design window. The drop-down arrows located to the immediate right of these buttons provide a list of all documents that are part of the backward or forward browse sequence respectively. Click on an entry to view that document directly.
Integrated Navigation Pages
Click the button to access the Home Page - part of Altium Designer's integrated navigation support pages. The Home Page provides links to perform common tasks, such as opening a recent document or project, account sign in settings, accessing system configuration options, features available for preview in the Altium Labs, and up-to-date information about Altium and Altium's products.