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Altium Designer Onboarding Workshop

Getting started with your new PCB Design Tool

We like to value your decision for Altium Designer and Altium 365. To make your start as smooth and easy as possible we invite you to a special live training workshop where we will demonstrate how to use Altium Designer to produce a PCB design in a typical process starting with a new schematic and concluding with the delivery of manufacturing files to a manufacturer.

The workshop will last approximately 3 hours and will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction
  • Download and Installation
  • Licensing
  • Activating the Altium 365 Workspace
  • Altium’s Unified Environment
  • Starting a New Project
  • Component Usage and Management
  • The Schematic Editor
  • Design Collaboration with Colleagues
  • MCAD CoDesign
  • Transferring a Schematic to the PCB Layout Editor
  • The PCB Layer Stack Manager
  • Design Rules
  • The PCB Editor
  • Output Generation using the Project Releaser
  • Handoff to Manufacturing
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Getting started with your new PCB Design Tool

We like to value your decision for Altium Designer and Altium 365. To make your start as smooth and easy as possible we invite you to a special live training workshop where we will demonstrate how to use Altium Designer to produce a PCB design in a typical process starting with a new schematic and concluding with the delivery of manufacturing files to a manufacturer.

The workshop will last approximately 3 hours and will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction
  • Download and Installation
  • Licensing
  • Activating the Altium 365 Workspace
  • Altium’s Unified Environment
  • Starting a New Project
  • Component Usage and Management
  • The Schematic Editor
  • Design Collaboration with Colleagues
  • MCAD CoDesign
  • Transferring a Schematic to the PCB Layout Editor
  • The PCB Layer Stack Manager
  • Design Rules
  • The PCB Editor
  • Output Generation using the Project Releaser
  • Handoff to Manufacturing

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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,…

Read Documentation
FAQs FAQs

For additional answers to the questions you may have in relation to Altium 365, take a look at the Altium Knowledge Base, whose content is curated based on support questions fielded each and every day. General How is my design data protected on Altium 365? Please visit the Altium 365 Trust Center, which connects you to the latest information on the security, reliability, privacy, and compliance…

Read Documentation
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Read Documentation
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Read Documentation
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As a registered user of the Altium 365 Platform (i.e. an Altium Account) you have your own Altium 365 Personal Space, which is accessible only by you. Your Personal Space accommodates persistent storage of various types of uploaded static data, including design 'snapshots' (from various ECAD platforms) and Gerber/ODB++ manufacturing data, with the ability to share with anyone for comments and…

Read Documentation
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