An introductory guide to Altium Designer! This will cover the high level steps of working in Altium along with in context links for more depth where needed. Topics include basic navigation & controls, the project workflow, the component workflow, and more.

CONTENTS

RETURN TO HOME PAGE: Altium Designer

Project Workflow

Altium Designer delivers great results for PCB development but has many steps to achieve this, not only in software, but also within NER to coordinate between our members.

{Explain the full flow (creation, work, async DRs, fab, bringup, etc)}

Project Creation

{explain}

Navigating Altium

On Startup

{Talk about home page, license window, and logging into 365}

Accessing Projects

{Talk about how to open a project and opening files within a project}

Schematic View

{Highlight key features when a schematic page is open}

Layout View

{Highlight key features when a board is open}

Component Workflow

{Explain full flow (creation, review, move to production, etc)}