Altium Presents: Unified Data Model

The design rules of the Manufacturing category are described below. The Manufacturing category of design rules. Done - 26.6, at Beta release: disable Beta and Altium employee for the conditional box above, enable Beta and Altium employee for the conditional box below. 26.10, at the Public release (PCB.Rules.RuleSets is out of Closed Beta): delete the conditional box and the content above, remove…

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…

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…

Parent page: Global Sharing In support of Altium 365's Global Sharing paradigm, Altium Designer supports the ability to share your design projects with others, anywhere around the world, directly from within the software. This complements the ability to share designs from within the browser-based Altium 365 platform itself. The following levels of sharing are supported from within Altium Designer…

Parent page: Finalizing the Board Design Via stitching is a technique used to tie together larger copper areas on different layers, in effect creating a strong vertical connection through the board structure, helping maintain a low impedance and short return loops. Via stitching can also be used to tie areas of copper that might otherwise be isolated from their net, to that net. In RF designs, to…

Working in 2D and 3D Layout Mode Historically, PCBs have been laid out in a two-dimensional design space that uses colors to represent the various layers of the PCB. However, the physical PCB is a three-dimensional object, which requires the PCB designer to take the multiple-layer, 2D representation on the screen and map that to a 3D representation in their mind. The substantial improvements in…

When working with a graphical document, such as a schematic sheet, PCB document, or Draftsman document, you can zoom and pan the document to focus on a specific document area. The basic shortcuts that can be used to do this are: Ctrl+Mouse Wheel to zoom in and out Right-Click, Hold&Drag to slide the document around The View main menu includes a number of commands that can be used to control the…

Parent page: Board Design Release Publishing Destinations offer you the ability to publish release data for a revision of a PCB Fabrication Data Item, PCB Assembly Data Item, or PCB Project Design Item, directly from a managed content server, or Output Job, to a storage space - such as Box.com, Amazon S3, an FTP server, or a simple folder location on a shared network. This enables you to host…

Parent page: More about Schematics Related Resources Creating Connectivity Compiling and Verifying the Design Design Synchronization When schematics were originally captured on paper, it was often on a single sheet of paper large enough to fill a big drafting table, and reproduced by a dedicated large-format copier. Times have changed, now schematics are captured on a desktop PC, stored on a…