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Altium Designer (ECAD) and Altium 365 (PLM) is used for all NER PCBs!

CONTENTS

The Onboarding Process

Get Access

  1. Slack Walter Stadolnik

  2. You’ll receive an email from Altium once you’ve been added

  3. Follow the directions in the email/use the Altium Designer installer

  4. You’re good to go!

Install & Setup

 Basic Installation
https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/installing

Use the above excessively thorough guide. Or, use the TLDR.

TLDR Installation Guide

  1. Download installer from here: https://www.altium.com/products/downloads

  2. Open it and follow the steps

 Setup for NER

{Will add stuff if we realize there are settings and stuff that we should use}

VLAB Access

For those on MacOS or just with weaker computers, VLAB may be for you!

 How to Altium on VLAB

  1. Log into the VLAB: https://coe.northeastern.edu/ecc/VLABHowTo.pdf

    1. Only for COE students; uses COE credentials, not NU

  2. Open Altium Designer from the Start menu

  3. Log in!

Yep, it’s that simple! Your access to licenses and the vault will load as soon as you’ve logged in. Once connected, Altium should behave entirely normally.

Learn Altium!

The following pages make up our core guides for Altium Designer!

Intro to Altiumhttps://nerdocs.atlassian.net/l/cp/qnLh40v2Component CreationSchematic CapturePCB Layout (Matt Edition)Advanced Layout

Video Tutorials

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These video tutorials are pretty alright. Feel free to give them a shot and see if they match your learning style.

Use Altium

Vault GuidelinesQuick Reference & TipsAltium Query Language

Complete Index of Altium Training Pages

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