PCB Design Collaboration

Modern electronics requires collaboration between multiple design domains and team members. Browse our library of resources to learn more about using the best PCB design software to collaborate with your team members and customers.

Part 1: Why Your PCB Design Review Process Is Obsolete and What You Can Do About It A printed circuit board (PCB) design review is a practice to review the design of a board for possible errors and issues at various stages of product development. It can range from a formal checklist with official sign-offs to a more free-form inspection of schematic drawings and PCB layouts. Some companies do it completely in-house, while others get help from design firms and contractors. In many cases, they involve their contract manufacturers Read Article

Altium NEXUS: The Last Mile of Digital Transformation Made Easy We live in an era fueled by innovation. In almost every aspect of our lives, we are constantly being reminded about the pace of innovation, its relentless acceleration touted in the news, its benefit on our lives, and the lifestyles our gadgets enable. For those of us whose business is electronic product design, the impacts of rapid innovation, changing market conditions, and customer expectations also permeate every aspect of our working Read Article

What is Digital Transformation in PCB Design? Innovative companies are embracing digital transformation at the enterprise level. Read Article

Overview of PCB Workflow Management We provide an overview of PCB workflow management for on-premises and remote teams. Use Altium Designer and Nexus to manage your PCB design workflow and engineering teams. Read Article

Using Altium 365 Over Your Vanilla Version Control System A review on the highlights of Altium 365 and why you would choose it over your vanilla version control system. Read Article

How to Solve Your Engineering Design Review Procedure Challenges Electrical engineering design reviews should focus on manufacturability, functionality, and reliability. Here’s how to solve your design review challenges. Read Article

Project Conception in the Project Management Lifecycle Your electronics project conception management is essential to identifying risks, establishing the product’s viability, and setting reliable development timescales and budget. Expert Mark Harris explains the importance of project conception in this article. Read Article

What's New: Altium 365 November 2021 Updates Check out the latest development and new features on Altium 365. Open Beta features include Schematic Compare, Gerber Compare, MCAD CoDesigner Updates and more. Read now to learn more. Read Article

Project History in Altium 365 Altium 365’s Project History shows changes to the project's documents and the timeline since the project was launched. Read Article

Interactive Commenting in Altium 365 With Altium 365 Interactive Commenting, your comments provide you instant access and complete visibility to any design changes, so your explanations are all in one place. Read Article

Part 2: Why Your PCB Design Review Process Is Obsolete and What You Can Do About It As we established in Part 1, the PCB design review and collaboration practices have room for improvement in many organizations. To address this, we developed Altium 365. Let's examine how running a PCB project through Altium 365 compares to other methods. One source of truth, visibility, and version control To start using Altium 365, you need to create a workspace and a centralized location for your design files, libraries, and collaboration Read Article

Mechanical and Electrical Design Come Together With Altium’s MCAD CoDesigner Electronics designers working in small design houses or in large enterprises often encounter a common set of challenges when interfacing with mechanical designers. For many new products, the mechanical form factor requirements will constrain the electrical design in terms of physical layout, location of interfaces, and component selection. For many electronic products, flex and rigid-flex board designs require careful modeling of the mechanical Read Article

Designing with Shock Management for Avionics PCBs Of all the electronics application areas, there is one that needs to carefully consider mechanical and thermal shocks during design: avionics. An avionics system that is put into production within a satellite, aircraft, or spacecraft can experience strong vibration and mechanical shock during flight, and these systems need to be designed with high reliability in mind. IPC standards, MIL-PRF standards, and other standards specify some design Read Article

The Best Design Collaboration Tools for Electronics Engineers Altium 365 includes the best collaboration tools for electrical engineers, MCAD engineers, and PCB design professionals. Read Article

PCB Sharing and What Data You Can Share in Altium 365 Open up your design data files with your team using the PCB sharing features in Altium 365. Read Article

SUBCKT Sharing: The Fastest Ways to Share SPICE Models Online SPICE simulation files shouldn’t be difficult to find. Use Altium 365 to store, track, and access your SUBCKT files for sharing. Read Article

Guide to Choosing Version Control For Your PCB Design Projects If you’re deciding on a version control system for your hardware projects, use the cloud-connected PCB design and management environment in Altium 365. Read Article