About Patterns

You can create patterns of holes and constraint areas on both boards and manufacturing panels. Patterns are often used for mounting purposes.

For information about how hole patterns are handled when importing IDF files, see About Holes.

This page gives you more information about the link between components and patterns.

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Creating Rectangular Patterns

Moving or deleting a component that uses a pattern modifies the pattern and the pattern needs to be updated.

For example,


  • Move the component to a new location (using Manipulate in the Assembly Design workbench).



Note: As soon as you release the mouse, the board turns red to indicate that it needs updating.


  • Update the board (using Update ) to see the pattern move to the new location of the component: