Altium Designer - Create Keepout Based On Board Outline
Answer : Go to Design -> Board Shape -> Create Primitives From Board Shape. Then select what layer you want to create the primitives on and how thick you want the outline to be. I don't have access to Altium at the moment so this is from memory. I use it all the time, though I use a separate mechanical layer specifically for the board outline (usually Mechanical Layer 6 renamed to "BOARD_OUTLINE"). What @DerStrom8 had suggested is correct. +1 to him. I'd like to elaborate a little. Go to Design → Board Shape → Create Primitives from Board Shape Pick layer and width in the dialog. Click OK. Altium will create a track around the PCB. This isn't the keep-out yet. Select this new track around the outline of the PCB. Go to Tolls → Convert → Convert Selected Primitives to Keepouts . Now you have the keep-out around the board outline. At the time of writing, I'm running Altium 20.1.10 . added: Related function in Altium: Board O...