Skip to main content

Altium Designer: Smooth edges with Teardrops

·94 words·1 min

Teardrops is a really nice feature present in Altium, where it analyzes all the traces and tries to smoothen the edges of the connections. Most users don’t know that this feature exists, and even if it doesn’t add a major change to the design, it can certainly improve the quality of your project, especially if you are working on high-speed or high-power electronics.

altium teardrops

To access the menu, while editing your PCB, go to Tools » Teardrops… (or simply press t + e).

Below you can check a random PCB design with and without Teardrops:

altium teardrops before

altium teardrops after