Altium Designer

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

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

The Onboarding Process

Get Access

  1. Slack Ethan Parab

  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

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: Downloads for PCB Design Products and EDA Software | Altium

  2. Open it and follow the steps

{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!

  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!

Video Tutorials

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

Altium Official

The following is Altium's simplified getting started guide. I find it quite clear, but at times oversimplifying. Definitely great for beginners: https://my.altium.com/altium-designer/getting-started

The following is Altium’s official documentation. Navigation is via the bar on the left. I find this to be very unorganized, but when you find the right pages, the information is 100% complete. Great for any questions you have that you want the full answer for: https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer

I definitely recommend navigating the official documentation by just using Google. It is much better than navigating their sidebar.

Make sure you select the latest version of Altium! The documentation website has versions going all the way back to 2015. It typically is via drop down in the top left or top right.

Use Altium

Complete Index of Altium Training Pages