Altium Designer
Essentials Course

In this intro to the course, you'll get familiar with the basic navigation elements in Altium Designer so you can explore with ease. Some of the major topics covered include: Customize your design environment layout, Editor Panels, layout for Toolbars and Menus, accessing and creating your Design Documents, accessing and Creating Design Projects, and configuring Your Schematic Preferences.

Effective management of component data is essential for electronic design, and the management of components used in a design has always been a fundamental element of the Altium design software. This module will explore the latest steps to create parts, and maintain your component library. Learn the techniques required to manage integrated libraries, schematic symbols, and PCB footprints.

The schematic capture process needs to include everything within the circuit design necessary to work, including the electrical connections with its environment. This module covers the basic practices that can help you save time and ensure your schematic sheets are easy to read including Object placement and making the Connections, Schematic Grids and Cursors, Working with Graphic Objects and Electrical Objects, Component Annotation, Global Editing, Design Compilation and Verification of Electrical Rules, creating a Hierarchical design, Multi-sheet Design, Transfer Design Rules created in the Schematic to the PCB.

The modern PCB is a dense, multi-layered engineering design challenge. Altium Designer is constantly introducing new capabilities to help streamline your PCB design process. This module will walk you step by step through the PCB User Interface and Preferences, PCB Navigation, Component Classes, Net Classes, Component Placement, Design Updates, Routing, Global Editing, Planes / Polygons, Layer Stack Management, Defining the Board Shape, Custom Grids, Design Rules and Constraints, and resolving Design Violations.

The final phase of the board design cycle is to generate the output files needed to fabricate, assemble and test the printed circuit board. To do this, you need to generate a variety of output files in a various of formats. This module will teach you how to generate multiple fabrication and assembly outputs as well as Bill of Material (BOM), through the use of Output Job files.