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Introduction
The purpose of this guide is to serve as a beginner-friendly walkthrough on how to create a PCB from a schematic using Altium Designer. You can find many such guides on the internet in both video and text form (Several good recommendations are made here!), but this guide has the benefit of being tailored to the specific standards and conventions used by Northeastern Electric Racing. This document was created by Walter Stadolnik (Unlicensed) , so feel free to poke him if anything seems outdated/incorrect.
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So - you’ve finished up a circuit schematic. Great! Now it’s time to turn it into a PCB.
~ But wait! ~
First, make sure that:
Your design has been reviewed - all schematics need to be reviewed before moving on to layout. Trust us - it’s no fun to have to change your design in the middle of routing a board.
You’ve addressed all the concerns from design review - make sure that you’ve thoroughly responded to all feedback in your review document.
Make sure all your components are marked as “Ready to Review” - Ideally all components will be reviewed before layout - it’s better to catch stuff like incorrect component packages before getting too deep in the weeds of routing. But at the very least, all components should be marked as “ready to review,” and your head or the chief EE should be notified. =
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