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Component Management and Libraries

Efficiently manage electronic components with centralized libraries, ensuring consistent sourcing, versioning, and integration for streamlined PCB design.

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Agile Image Getting Started in Altium Agile 3 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians +19 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians ECAD Librarians Project Leads Project Leads Mechanical Designers Mechanical Designers These step-by-step tutorials guide users in how to set up and activate an Altium Agile Workspace, connect it to Altium Designer, navigate the workspace in a web browser, and invite and manage users, so teams can get organized and start collaborating quickly. Read Article
MCAD CoDesigner screenshot MCAD CoDesigner: Onboarding Guide 1 min Guide Books Learn how to activate your Altium 365 Workspace, install and configure CoDesigner, and get started with MCAD CoDesigner. This onboarding guide provides links to documentation, best practices, additional resources, and help. Read Article
Z2Data Integration screenshot Z2Data Integration: Onboarding Guide 1 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Project Leads +1 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers Project Leads Project Leads Procurement Managers Procurement Managers Learn how to get started with Z2Data Integration and enrich your parts with valuable information including live lifecycle, lifecycle forecast, and compliance data in Altium 365 and Altium Designer. Read Article
Library management interface screenshot Library Migration: Onboarding Guide 2 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians +3 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians ECAD Librarians Project Leads Project Leads Existing Customers Existing Customers Altium Designer, in conjunction with Altium 365, provides a streamlined and highly automated process to quickly migrate your existing libraries Read Article

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Altium Designer Overview 88 min Webinars

Altium Designer is the #1 PCB design tool for a reason. Join us for this live webinar and get an

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Ensure Best Designs with Professional Library Management 45 min Webinars Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers

In this webinar, you'll discover how Altium Designer facilitates robust component management, including adding part choices to mitigate supply chain

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Ensuring Electronic Component Traceability From Idea to Innovation 36 min Thought Leadership Procurement Managers Manufacturing Engineers Procurement Managers Procurement Managers Manufacturing Engineers Manufacturing Engineers

Watch the webinar to learn how to achieve full transparency, improve collaboration, and ensure compliance throughout your entire supply chain—whether

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Bridge the Information Divide: Altium 365 Meets Z2Data 54 min Webinars Electrical Engineers Procurement Managers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers Procurement Managers Procurement Managers

Watch the webinar to learn how Z2Data can help you build resilience in engineering, compliance, and procurement through the comprehensive

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6:18 Prerequisites of a Workspace 7 min Videos Engineering Managers Electrical Engineers PCB Design Engineers Engineering Managers Engineering Managers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers The Altium 365 workspace can be used to maintain the library and flag possible issues for example for obsolescence management. Read Article
2:12 Folder Permissions 2 min Videos Engineering Managers Electrical Engineers PCB Design Engineers Engineering Managers Engineering Managers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers This video demonstrates how to set sharing permissions for folders in the Explorer Panel. To do so, expand the components folder, and select a folder within it. Next, right click and select properties. In the properties dialog box, select the share link, and alter the permissions for users via the drop down option. To add a role, type it in. Any permissions set for a folder will also apply to the children's folders within that top folder. Finally, close the dialog boxes by selecting okay twice to set the sharing permissions for a component. Read Article
4:23 BOM Portal Supplier Data Export 4 min Videos PCB Design Engineers Project Leads Electrical Engineers +1 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Project Leads Project Leads Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers Engineering Managers Engineering Managers Altium 365 Bom Portal allows you to upload or create a Bill of Materials for an existing managed design. It can also export an Excel BOM that contains the data from multiple suppliers, including prices. To begin, create a BOM document, and display some favored suppliers for a part. Next, open Excel and create a BOM template using the demonstrated special column queries, before saving and uploading the file into the BOM Portal in Altium Designer. Finally, refresh the page and download the file to view the prices easily for the chosen suppliers and data. Read Article
4:22 Relink Design Components to Managed Components 5 min Videos PCB Design Engineers Project Leads Electrical Engineers +1 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Project Leads Project Leads Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers Engineering Managers Engineering Managers This video demonstrates how unmanaged projects can use managed components, even when a user is offline and using a local machine. In order to link this local project to an Altium 365 Workspace and integrate the resources of Altium 365 into this project, open tools and then the Item Manager. The Item Manager will scan the design and load any components within the design, showing that they are unmanaged. To relink these components located in the local library to the Altium 365 components, click auto match to match each component. If any components fail to match, users can select and navigate to the individual components and manually match them. Then, an ACL and ECO are generated, the changes are executed, and the components are updated. After this is completed, all of the components are updated to the latest revision. Configure the parameters "Visible on Add" by selecting enable for the "PackageCase" parameter and click okay. Refresh the screen and choose a component within the capacitors folder and place it. Now the case size is visible for that capacitor and the Properties Panel also displays this value. Read Article

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Agile Image Getting Started in Altium Agile 3 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians +19 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians ECAD Librarians Project Leads Project Leads Mechanical Designers Mechanical Designers These step-by-step tutorials guide users in how to set up and activate an Altium Agile Workspace, connect it to Altium Designer, navigate the workspace in a web browser, and invite and manage users, so teams can get organized and start collaborating quickly. Read Article
MCAD CoDesigner screenshot MCAD CoDesigner: Onboarding Guide 1 min Guide Books Learn how to activate your Altium 365 Workspace, install and configure CoDesigner, and get started with MCAD CoDesigner. This onboarding guide provides links to documentation, best practices, additional resources, and help. Read Article
Z2Data Integration screenshot Z2Data Integration: Onboarding Guide 1 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Project Leads +1 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers Project Leads Project Leads Procurement Managers Procurement Managers Learn how to get started with Z2Data Integration and enrich your parts with valuable information including live lifecycle, lifecycle forecast, and compliance data in Altium 365 and Altium Designer. Read Article
Library management interface screenshot Library Migration: Onboarding Guide 2 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians +3 PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers ECAD Librarians ECAD Librarians Project Leads Project Leads Existing Customers Existing Customers Altium Designer, in conjunction with Altium 365, provides a streamlined and highly automated process to quickly migrate your existing libraries Read Article