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Altium Designer’s Free PCB Viewer Download Allows You to Explore Your BRD Files

Altium Designer’s Free PCB Viewer Download Allows You to Explore Your BRD Files Today, it almost seems that there are as many PCB design file formats as there are PCB manufacturers. Using a custom file format is advantageous when working with the originating company’s program. However, there are many times when you need the capability to view or use non-native files. This can be a challenge when working with most PCB software companies, but not Altium. Altium offers a free online BRD file viewer powered by the Altium 365 Read Article

Keep Your Eagle Software Files When You Migrate to Altium

Keep Your Eagle Software Files When You Migrate to Altium When your free design software and other programs like designing circuit boards with Eagle Software don’t include critical design features, you’re stuck finding a workaround with another design tool. The real price of budget design software is lost time, lost productivity, and headaches that arise from inconsistent workflows and compatibility problems. When it’s time to get serious about PCB design, it’s time to look at Altium Designer. Below we Read Article

2:39 Eagle to Altium Designer Migration - Manufacturing Outputs Watch Video

5:32 Eagle to Altium Designer Migration - Defining and Using Rooms in Altium Designer Watch Video

3:41 Eagle to Altium Designer Migration - Component Research Watch Video

Bil Herd on Changing CAD Tools and Making Your Own Part Libraries Watch Video

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Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for Autodesk EAGLE™ Users_2017

Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for Autodesk EAGLE™ Users_2017 . Read Article

Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for Autodesk EAGLE™ Users_2017

Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for Autodesk EAGLE™ Users_2017 Altium Designer Evaluation Guide Read Article

Unified Platform Datasheet

Unified Platform Datasheet Altium Designer has been built from the ground up as a powerful, single-application electronics development environment that contains all the advanced design tools you’ll need to capture and simulate hardware, design PCBs, collaborate with MCAD, manage your ECAD data and documentation, as well as manage your designs from concept to production. It’s all there in a single, unified design platform. FEATURES AND BENEFITS Unified Design Environment Read Article

From Eagle to Altium Designer: Evaluation Resources to Help You Switch

From Eagle to Altium Designer: Evaluation Resources to Help You Switch As you dive into your evaluation of Altium Designer, here is information specifically for someone like you that is coming from an Eagle background. When we look at what engineers and designers really do every day, we often see that as much as 61% of your day can be consumed with non-design related tasks. These tasks are a byproduct of using a collection of tools (ULPs), vs. the Altium Designer paradigm of using a Unified Design Environment. So Read Article

Altium Evaluation Guide For Autodesk Eagle Users

Altium Evaluation Guide For Autodesk Eagle Users . Read Article

CS 1.4 has been released - Now easier than ever to migrate from Eagle™

CS 1.4 has been released - Now easier than ever to migrate from Eagle™ Of particular note in this release, is the addition of Classes. Within the schematic, Net Classes can be generated using the new Net Class directive and Component Classes are automatically generated for each Schematic Sheet within the hierarchy. Within PCB a new Classes dialog is available on the Home tab in the Design Rules section, and this can be used to create Pad, Polygon, Component, Layer, and Net Classes. CircuitStudio is the world’s Read Article

Migrating From Autodesk Eagle™ to Altium Designer®

Migrating From Autodesk Eagle™ to Altium Designer® For the purpose of this migration guide we are going to focus on importing Eagle PCB Designs, if you require other files migrated, please refer to their specific guide. Preparing to Migrate Your Legacy Data Never forget that migration of data follows the “garbage in…. more garbage out” principle. So, we need to consider four distinct phases of the process, this is best shown in the flow diagram below: Step 1: Prepare Original Data - Pre Read Article

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Not All PCB Design Birds Are Meant to Fly

Not All PCB Design Birds Are Meant to Fly My first job was for a large company, which was surrounded by anxiety and excitement. My main goal was to apply years of learning to justify the fifty-thousand-dollar price tag of my education. I used electronic CAD applications in school, all of which were Windows-based, but my first foray into professional design tools was all Unix. My cube was occupied by a Sun Solaris and HP UX box, both of which generated enough radiation to power a small Read Article