Over time you will likely develop several board characteristics that you have used but not every board uses all of them. For example you might have two or three board outlines you often use, but the layer stack-ups are different from one board to the next. Perhaps you have different technology files you use and have several mechanical symbols or drawing symbols that you need to select from, but they also vary from board to board. Rather than make a board template for every possible combination of these characteristics, you can save each of the characteristics and symbols in a library and use the Board Wizard to select specific characteristics and combine them into one new board design. The Board Wizard allows you to reuse your favorite board characteristics while keeping your template library more easily organized.

When you start a new board, the wizard will look for templates and technology files in the current working directory where you start the process but will look in the symbols library for mechanical and drawing symbols. Before you begin make sure that any mechanical and drawing symbols you plan on using are in the symbols library and any board templates and technology files you will use are copied to the file path where you are setting up the new board.

To begin a new board using the wizard, start PCB Editor and select File ? New from the menu. At the New Drawing dialog box,...