The Commodore Experience and Engineering the Early Generations of Home Computers with Bil Herd

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,…

Altium Designer, in conjunction with the Altium 365 Workspace, brings support for an advanced project construct that targets the development stage of the project lifecycle, simplifying the creation and ongoing workflow for version-controlled projects. Centralized storage under the control of the Workspace also enables this feature to be a foundation for other collaborative services. Some key…

The Altium 365 Web Viewer interface provides universal access to PCB project documents through a standard web browser. Much more than just a web-based viewer, its advanced browser technology allows users to navigate through the project structure, interact with design documents, extract information about elements in the design, and highlight areas or objects for commenting notes. When viewing…

Requirements Portal is under continuous development. This page outlines new features and enhancements made to Requirements Portal in key updates. 2.53, at the release: remove the box below, leave the content. Update - 6 August 2026 Consolidated UI of the Importer In this release, the Import Wizard used to import requirements to your projects has been updated to consolidate the user interface of…

Altium's MCAD CoDesigner technology connects the mechanical and electrical design domains, allowing the mechanical and electronic engineers to pass the loaded PCB back and forth between the two domains. In your Altium design software, this is achieved through an extension that loads and extracts board and component data from the PCB editor, the MCAD CoDesigner extension. In the MCAD software the…

In early stages of electronic designs, it is important to define the design on the conceptual/functional level. This initial step serves as a crucial foundation for the entire development process, providing a high-level overview of the system's architecture and its primary elements. A well-crafted block diagram clarifies the major functional units of the electronic system and illustrates their…

The Company Dashboard Advanced Controls page allows administrators to specify Workspace and Personal Space user access policies for the organization’s Altium 365 platform. The available options can be applied to prevent the activation of Workspaces (if available for creation) and to control the file sharing/uploading capabilities of the Personal Spaces available to company members. These options…

Requirements Portal is an advanced engineering management tool used to ensure specification and performance compliance during system design development. When enabled for your Altium 365 Workspace, Requirements Portal integrates with your PCB design projects through the exchange of design data and formalized Requirements instances. The system requirements, as created in Requirements Portal, can be…

The Assembly Assistant tool in an Enterprise Server Workspace delivers an integrated tool that allows assemblers to check and work through the board assembly process from one convenient location. For those checking a board's assembly prior to manufacture or engaged in the process of manually assembling boards (say, for prototypes or a short run), the tool provides the required set of graphical…

Altium's MCAD CoDesigner technology connects the mechanical and electrical design domains, allowing the mechanical and electronic engineers to pass the loaded PCB back and forth between the two domains. In your Altium design software, this is achieved through an extension that loads and extracts board and component data from the PCB editor, the MCAD CoDesigner extension. In the MCAD software the…