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By default, on startup Altium will open the “Home” page. It has some links to trainings, articles, and surveys, none of which are particularly useful. Feel free to close it out by right clicking on the tab and clicking “Close”
{Talk about home page, license window, and logging into 365}
Accessing Projects
{To actually view documents and edit projects you’ll need a license and access to the vault/Altium 365! This comes in two parts:
{screenshot of where to click to log into 365}
Once logged into 365, you should have access to the vault. Sometimes your license will also activate, but you can double check by opening the licensing page:
{screenshot of where to click for licenses}
Managing your License
{screenshot pointing out all the buttons}
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Pay attention to the #pcb channel in Slack when working on boards. Sometimes the licenses get taken up accidentally when people are not actively working and we run out of licenses. |
Accessing Projects
Opening projects is primarily completed through the projects panel. Location of the projects tab can be moved wherever is prefered (just click and drag) but it defaults to the left side panel column:
{screenshot of where projects usually is}
All projects for NER are stored in the online vault, which can be accessed by right clicking the top of the panel and selecting “XXX“:
{screenshot of above}
The panel that opens can then be used to select a project and open it:
{screenshot of cloud projects}
The projects panel has two view modes. This can be toggled with the button in the XXX of the above screenshot.
{Talk about how to open a project and opening files within a project}
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