Altium Designer (ECAD) and Altium 365 (PLM) is used for all NER PCBs!
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The Onboarding Process
Get Access
Slack Walter Stadolnik
You’ll receive an email from Altium once you’ve been added
Follow the directions in the email/use the Altium Designer installer
You’re good to go!
Install & Setup
Use the above excessively thorough guide. Or, use the TLDR.
TLDR Installation Guide
Download installer from here: https://www.altium.com/products/downloads
Open it and follow the steps
Learn Altium!
The following pages make up our core guides for Altium Designer!
Intro to Altiumhttps://nerdocs.atlassian.net/l/cp/qnLh40v2Component CreationSchematic CaptureAltium Layout(Basics) (Navigation, editing, running DRCs, polygons, etc)
{Layout (Advanced)} (Setting up design rules, shortcuts, etc)
Video Tutorials
These video tutorials are pretty alright. Feel free to give them a shot and see if they match your learning style.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvLToQzgzdfKKQn2wmpuSXz6sROQmO6R
3.75 hours total - Great beginner tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqFtSpAXB9Q
1.5 hours - Quicker Beginner Tutorial tailored to Altium 2022
Justin Flett - Altium Designer (LinkedIn Learning via NEU Credentials)
Use Altium
Vault Guidelines (Standards for components as well as projects/schematics)
{Quick Reference} (summary of stuff)
{Tips and Tricks} (May be rolled into the above page)
{Favorite Shortcuts} (may be rolled into above. Obviously Altium has a shortcut for every single button, but would be nice to highlight some)
{Altium Query Language} (As you’d expect)
Complete Index of Altium Training Pages