Pete , 12-13-2016, 07:03 AM
Hi,
I’m designing a board with a toroidal transformer. When I first created the PCB footprint there was a square keep out region around it which prevented me placing components close the edges of the component. I got around this by going into the tools menu in Altium and selecting manage 3d bodies and choosing closed shape under detection method (previously bounding rectangle).
I then got a CAD model of the actual component from Inventor and imported it to Altium as a step file. When I import this step file into Altium, I can see the model is correct in 3D view but in 2D layout, I again have this bounding rectangle which now cannot be fixed with the previous method.
Has anyone encountered this problem before and do they have a fix?