ALTIUM EVALUATION GUIDE FOR PADS® USERS

Depending on your relationship with Altium, the services offered on the Altium Platform will be experienced from within Altium Designer and through the platform's browser-based interface. This page takes a look at the latter and provides an overview of what you'll see when you register an Altium Account and sign in to the Altium Platform Interface. For the latest information on the security,…

User Management for a Workspace is performed by an Administrator through the Team and Admin areas of that Workspace's browser interface. This provides the interface to the Identity Service (IDS), with which to define applicable service access, through the specification of Users (Members) and Groups. An MCAD user can be invited to be a Team member from within Altium Designer, too. For more…

The project Design Reviews page is the central location for all project stakeholders to perform and manage structured reviews of a Workspace design project. The interface allows the creation, access and management of Design Review instances by any Workspace member, which in turn can be assigned to other Workspace members as Reviewers. The Design Review creator (the Initiator) can add attachments…

Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Design changes are passed through an Altium Workspace, which acts as a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD domains. Altium MCAD CoDesigner works with Onshape, a fully cloud-native computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) platform. To CoDesign between Altium…

Renesas 365, powered by Altium, is built on the Altium 365 platform and developed for electronics system design. It liberates engineers by unifying development workflows to improve efficiency and accelerate design cycles from concept to volume production. The main, high-level entity in Renesas 365 is a Solution that unifies different aspects of the system that you create – system design, software…

There are three ways to create requirements in Requirements Portal: Creating manually Importing Requirements Use the Engineering Assistant to generate requirements based on a prompt This page describes how to create Requirements by manually adding the necessary information. To get more insights on the other two options, please use the links to get to the corresponding documentation. To add a new…

Requirements Portal is under continuous development. This page outlines new features and enhancements made to Requirements Portal in key updates. Update - 20 August 2026 Ability to Express Satisfaction with the Engineering Assistant Responses In this release, the ability to express your satisfaction with the Engineering Assistant responses has been implemented. Use the thumbs up/down icons below…

This document is a reference guide for the syntax, operators, and conventions used in the Workspace hardware design search language. Search queries are based on a familiar field:value syntax, and can be used to perform quick, simple searches through to constructing powerful and precise queries. See Advanced Design Search for related usage information. Search Syntax and Guide The below reference…

Supported MCAD Software The following MCAD platforms and versions are currently supported: Autodesk Inventor Professional® Autodesk Fusion® (Microsoft Windows version only. Autodesk Fusion Personal license only supported by Altium CircuitMaker) Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS® (Standard, Pro & Premium) PTC Creo Parametric® Siemens® NX™ - (for designers with an Altium Enterprise Solution) Onshape®…

Bridging the ECAD-MCAD Divide The electronic product you hold in your hand is the melding of numerous, independent designs. Firstly there's the enclosure you're holding; inside that, there will be one or more electronic circuit boards, and on the board, there is often a microprocessor running software. Beyond that, there can be specialized sections of circuitry to perform unusual sensing or…