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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Project Setup, Interface and Schematic Libraries
- Altium Designer interface, panels, editors and project navigation
- Autosave, Local History and version control
- Project preparation and consistent file structure
- Creating and configuring a PCB project
- Local, version-controlled and Workspace project locations
- Using the classic PCB Rules and Constraints Editor
- Project parameters and parameter-driven schematic templates
- Shared Schematic Editor settings
- Schematic library structure and navigation
- Symbol origin, grid, units and graphical primitives
- Pin designators, names and electrical types
- Component parameters, models and manufacturer data
- Footprint association and pin-to-pad mapping
- Creating resistor, capacitor and LED schematic components
- Schematic component approval checkpoint
Schematic Design and Validation
- Reviewing and approving component data
- Schematic connectivity and project architecture
- Wires, junctions, Net Labels, Power Ports and directives
- Buses, Ports and Off-Sheet Connectors
- Flat and hierarchical schematic structures
- Parent-child sheet relationships
- Repeated-channel and multichannel designs
- Component classes and PCB Rooms generated from schematic structure
- Design variants and project revisions
- Building a structured course schematic
- Error Reporting configuration
- Connection Matrix configuration
- No ERC and intentional exception handling
- Validation, compilation and review of the Messages panel
- Schematic review checklist
- Pre-PCB transfer release gate
PCB Libraries, Setup and Core Design Rules
- PCB library structure, navigation, grids and coordinate systems
- Reading component datasheets and package drawings
- Creating PCB footprints
- Pads, holes, solder mask and paste mask settings
- Mechanical layers, assembly data and component outlines
- Adding and checking 3D models
- Pin-one identification and footprint orientation
- Footprint review and approval checklist
- PCB document and view settings
- Units, grids, snapping and selection filters
- Interactive routing settings
- Classic PCB Rules and Constraints Editor
- Rule scope, priorities and query-based targeting
- Clearance, routing width and via rules
- Online and Batch DRC
- PCB editor tools, keepouts and polygons
- PCB design workflow and milestone-based exercise
PCB Completion, Manufacturing Outputs and DFMA
- Reviewing the Engineering Change Order before PCB transfer
- Board shape and mechanical constraints
- Component placement and placement review
- Interactive routing and polygon creation
- Final Online and Batch DRC
- PCB review checklist
- Preparing fabrication, assembly and mechanical outputs
- Gerber or ODB++ data
- NC Drill files
- IPC-D-356 netlist
- Bill of Materials
- Pick-and-Place data
- Fabrication and assembly drawings
- STEP mechanical model
- Configuring repeatable outputs with Output Jobs
- Preparing human-readable documentation with Draftsman
- Reading PCB manufacturer capability sheets
- Stack-up and controlled-construction fundamentals
- Copper geometry, holes, vias, solder mask and surface finish
- Translating manufacturing limits into PCB design rules
- Correcting DFMA issues in the Rules Editor
- Generating the complete production package
- Opening and verifying the actual generated files
- Production package review and release gate
Controlled Release, Advanced Workflow and Change Control
- Practical Altium 365 workflow
- Saving meaningful project revisions
- Reviewing project history
- Browser-based sharing and design review comments
- Classes, rule scope and rule priorities
- Rooms and repeated-channel placement intent
- High-speed constraint dependency chain
- Defining differential pairs on the schematic
- Verifying differential-pair objects in the PCB
- Layer stack and impedance profiles
- Linking an impedance profile to the Differential Pairs Routing rule
- Length and Matched Length rules
- Within-pair skew and group matching
- Rule-driven length tuning and verification
- Schematic-to-PCB synchronization
- Reviewing an Engineering Change Order before execution
- Implementing a late engineering change
- Protecting existing PCB work during an update
- Re-running DRC and updating documentation
- Regenerating and verifying the production package
- Controlled re-release
- Complete PCB workflow and six release gates
- Company workflow adaptation
- Final review and Q&A
Requirements
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of electronics and the ability to read circuit schematics.
- Familiarity with fundamental PCB concepts such as nets, layers, pads, vias, traces and component footprints.
- Previous experience with Altium Designer is not required.
- Experience with another ECAD tool, such as KiCad, EAGLE or OrCAD, is helpful but not mandatory.
Audience
- PCB designers and layout engineers who are new to Altium Designer or moving from another ECAD platform.
- Electronics and electrical engineers responsible for schematic capture, PCB layout, design review or manufacturing documentation.
- Technicians and hardware development team members who support component libraries, DRC, DFMA, production outputs or engineering changes.
- Engineering teams seeking a repeatable workflow from schematic design to controlled production release.
Testimonials (1)
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