How to Use Rooms for Component Placement in Altium Designer

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Rooms give PCB designers more control over how and where their components are placed in the PCB. Learn how to use room properties to limit what is allowed in and out of a room with the room definition and custom queries.

0:00 Intro
0:15 Accessing Room Properties
0:31 Targeting Specific Component Classes
1:05 Keeping Components Out of a Room
1:19 Room Targeting and Component Placement

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