Duration

Altium Designer Basic Training

3 days

Overview

This 3 - day course is aimed for students who are new to Altium Designer Software. The main objective is to enable participants to learn how to create PCB Board from scratch, starting from Schematic and PCB to fabrication outputs and documentation outputs, using Altium Designer. In Addition, students will also get to learn topics such as Creation of libraries and Multi-Sheet Design.

Upon completion of this course, participants will:

Create PCB Project from scratch
Create Schematic and PCB Library
Understand the usage of Multiple schematic sheets designs

Module 1: Getting started

Altium Live
Products Menu
Community Menu
Resources Menu

Module 2: The Altium designer environment

A Unified Design Platform
The Editor View
Panels, Menus, Dialogs, Search Bar

Module 3: It starts with a project

Types of Design Projects
Working with Projects
The Project Packager

Module 4: Design documents

Working with Documents
Document Options
Creating Schematic template

Module 5: Schematic libraries & components

Libraries Panel
Altium Content Vault

Module 6: Schematic capture

Common Elements of Object Placement
Schematic Grids and Cursors
Electrical Objects
Schematic Capture

Module 7: Defining the PCB board shape

The Board Shape
Defining the Board Shape from Existing Primitives
Defining the Board Shape from Coordinates
Defining the Board Shape from a DXF File
Defining the Board Shape from a 3D Body
Design Transfer to PCB

Module 8: PCB layers

Layer Stack Manager
Layer Definitions
PCB Layer Display

Module 9: Design rules

PCB Rules Definitions
Creating Design Rules
Design Rule Check

Module 10: Routing essentials

Interactive Routing
Interactive Differential Pair Routing
Active Route

Module 11: Polygons pour

Placing a Polygon Pour
Shelved Polygons
Repour Polygons
Creating Polygon Pour using selected primitives
Creating Polygon Pour using Polygon Manager
Polygon Cutouts

Module 12: Global editing

Altium Designer’s Data Editing Paradigm
Selection Methods
Editing Objects

Module 13: Documentation outputs and BOM generation

Smart PDF Wizard
Draftsman
Generating the BOM

Module 14: Outputs and fabrication files

Adding & Defining an OutJob
Output Generation on Gerber and NC Drill

Module 15: Schematic symbol creation

Creating a new Symbol
Using SCH Library Panel
Copying Existing Components to library

Module 16: PCB component creation

Manually Creating a Footprint
Using the Footprint

Module 17: Component creation

Adding Links to Other Domain Models
Library Reports

Module 18: Integrated libraries

Creating an IntLib using a Library Package
Placing components from an Integrated Library
Modifying an Integrated Library

Module 19: Multi-sheet design & design hierarchy (project)

Defining Sheet Structure
Multi-Sheet Design Connectivity
Assigning Sheet Numbers
Checking Sheet Synchronization
PCB Layout Directives

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.