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Standardize and Enhance Your Design Efficiency with Project Templates Standardize and Enhance Your Rapid Design Efficiency with Project Templates Are you unnecessarily repeating steps that are slowing your design workflow down? Starting to feel the pressure of a modern, fast-paced design environment that demands continuous product deliveries and rapid design cycles? Find out how Project Templates can help to speed up your project setup time by standardizing your initial setup goals. Today’s engineers are under constant pressure to finish projects on increasingly shorter product schedules Read Article
How to Easily Reverse Engineer PCB Project Libraries Reverse Engineering PCB Project Libraries Receiving PCB design files from clients isn’t always as smooth a process. Clients may send incomplete project files, project library files with unstandardized component libraries, or other files that don’t match what you actually need. When that happens, how do you proceed with the project? Outsourcing has become the de-facto solution for companies seeking to cut costs and increase their profit margins. Rather than consuming their own resources Read Article
How to Utilize Queries to Save Time and Resources How to Utilize Queries to Save Time and Resources ​ Navigating your PCB boards and verifying their compliance to your project’s design rules is becoming ever more complex in today’s dense and elaborate designs. How can you maximize your time and leverage your design rules to their true potential? Read on to find out. Using Queries to Save on Time and Resources It’s becoming increasingly more complicated to navigate your boards and verify their compliance to your project rules in today’s Read Article
Expedite PCB Production with a Live Drill Table Expedite PCB Production with a Live Drill Table Having visibility over the number, size and symbols that represent each hole in a PCB design can reassure that no hiccups will delay production and increase costs down the road. Now you can expedite the production of your PCBs with access to the live drill table in Altium Designer®. Read on to learn more. One of the most important elements involved with manufacturing printed boards is the PCB drill table, also called the drill legend. This table Read Article
Eliminate Mistakes in Your Schematics with Electronic Rule Checking Eliminate Mistakes in Your Schematics with Electronic Rule Checking In times of rising design complexity and shortened timelines, it’s more and more for mistakes to sneak through in the schematic that can translate to the printed circuit board. Read on to find out how to easily identify and eliminate issues in your schematic with the Electronic Rule Checking your PCB in Altium Designer®. Many designers and companies put all their efforts in having a proper PCB layout and, nowadays, checking in real time the Read Article
Isolate Objects on a Design with Custom PCB Queries Isolate Objects on a Design with Custom PCB Queries It can be a great challenge for engineers to make edits to specific objects on overpopulated boards. Leverage the global editing and custom query features in Altium Designer® to easily locate objects and maintain consistency in your designs. Read on to learn more. Every faces significant challenges once a board gets overpopulated with and traces. One of the greatest tasks of working with complex electronic designs is managing a large number of Read Article
Communicate Design Intent with the Right Output Job File Communicate Design Intent with the Right Output Job File Learn how to save hours of manual labor by automating your output job file creation process using the Project Releaser in Altium Designer®. In my previous blog post, I talked about the manual processes still being used to create professional PCB design documents like fab and assembly drawings, and how a tool like Altium Draftsman® can help automate that process. Unfortunately, creating your drawings is only part of the battle you face when Read Article
The PCB Design Guide for Engineers Part 2 - PCB Planning The PCB Design Guide for Engineers Part 2 - PCB Planning As a PCB designer, the planning of the development of a one or several printed circuit boards can be a daunting task. There will be a host of other software tools that will be used in the development of your project. From tools that can be used to track the progress of your human resources within your team to the software tools used by your internal and external resources to bring your project to life. What about high speed components, the solder Read Article
Experience a Completely Unified Design Environment Experience a Completely Unified Design Environment With today’s ever growing market expectations, strict project deadlines, and increasingly complex designs, what solutions exist to minimize the time spent switching between your design tools to complete projects? Now you can successfully deliver products on time and within budget in a completely unified design environment. Read on to find out how. Do you feel like your schematic and pcb tools are from different planets? Are you still using a Read Article
5 Tips for Specifying PCB Hole Size Tolerance 5 Tips for Specifying PCB Hole Size Tolerance in Pads and Vias One of the crucial yet often overlooked aspects of PCB design are the holes through which components are mounted. Specifying the tolerance of hole dimensions in PCB fabrication ensures proper fit of plated-through-hole (PTH) components. Just as important, those dimensions must be clearly communicated to the fabricator so that the boards are properly made. Now, Altium ® PCB design software allows you to add hole tolerance attributes for your pads Read Article
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