I've been to a couple introductory Altium trainings and everything goes fine and dandy. This is the actual first board I am working on by myself. I've been learning so much just by doing stuff myself but there is something that I can't seem to quite understand.
Whenever I transfer my schematic to the PCB is is placed inside this reddish box, I believe it is a Room. All the examples I saw during training didn't do this. And if I move the components outside the box they turn green (DRC error maybe?)
Does anyone know what this means?
Answer
That is indeed called a "Room".
Rooms are relevant if you're doing multi-channel design, as they let you copy the layout between channels.
It's also completely normal.
If you want to disable it, it's very easy to do:
- Click the room -> PCB Inspector panel -> uncheck "Rule Enabled" checkbox.
- "Design" menu -> "Rules" menu item -> In the tree: "Design Rules" -> "Placement" -> "Room Definition" -> uncheck all the "Enabled" checkboxes.
Alternatively, you can just delete the room, but it will come back next time you synchronize the schematic to the PCB.
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