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Requirements Portal is under continuous development. This page outlines new features and enhancements made to Requirements Portal in key updates. 2.60, at the release: remove the box below, leave the content. Update - 12 November 2026 Simple Start In this release, the concept of Simple Start has been implemented in order to make establishing a requirements project easier and make the required…

Explore the key capabilities of the Altium Platform (Altium 365), from managing design content and reviewing BOMs to integrating parts data and supporting board assembly. This quick-reference guide groups capabilities into portals, extensions, and core features, with links to detailed documentation so you can find the information you need. Availability depends on your subscribed Altium solution…

Compare PCB fabrication outputs between releases or before sending your board data to manufacture with the free, browser-based Altium 365 Gerber Compare viewer. This article explains how to upload two Gerber datasets, explore color-coded differences by layer, and measure distances in the comparison or individual source views, without downloads, installation, or registration. Keep reading to learn…

Learn how to connect requirements to your electronic design projects using Altium 365's Requirements Portal. This article walks through setting up Projects, Blocks, and Specifications, linking requirements to design data and Verification and Validation activities, and accessing requirements within your Workspace. Keep reading to start putting requirements into context in your design workflow. -…

The Project Module in Requirements Portal details and provides project management capabilities. The user interface to the Project Module is the Home page that opens when Requirements Portal is accessed from the nine-dot menu at the top right of the Workspace's browser-based interface (). The page provides access to existing requirements projects, which target requirements management, and also…

Requirements Portal supports commenting within your requirement projects. A comment is a user-added note that is assigned to a specific requirement, specification, section, V&V activity, or block and may be replied to by other users. Comments promote collaboration between users without altering the shared data itself, because comments are stored by the Workspace independently of that data. You…

A skill is a reusable instruction set that the Engineering Assistant can execute in to perform a specific task more consistently. A skill packages how a specific engineering task should be done – the intent, the boundaries, the inputs it needs, the steps to follow – so that the same outcome is produced consistently, regardless of who runs it or when and without each user having to explain the…

Altium 365 Assembly Assistant brings BOM data and interactive 2D/3D board views together in a browser-based tool for checking board assemblies and guiding manual assembly. This article explains how to locate components, customize the assembly view, and track progress as you check or fit parts, without switching between separate BOM and assembly printouts. Read on to take a more organized approach…

Learn how the Altimade page in an Altium 365 Workspace helps you complete and manage manufacturing orders initiated in Altium Designer. This article covers checkout, including quantities, shipping, pricing, and payment, along with how to review order details and track manufacturing progress. Altimade is currently available by invitation only and requires the Altimade Manufacturing software…

See what has changed in your design before sending product data to manufacturing. This article explains how to access and use fabrication, schematic, PCB and BOM comparison tools in an Altium 365 Workspace, from reviewing Gerber and ODB++ differences layer by layer to tracing component and net changes between schematic revisions, layout changes between PCB revisions, and component data changes…