Installation, Licensing and Graphical User Interface of Altium Designer
  • Introduction to Altium Designer - Basics
  • Installation and licensing
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Navigation with keyboard and mouse
  • PCB design basics
  • Quiz 1
Developing Custom Components
  • Creating a schematic symbol - Crystal
  • Creating a PCB footprint (2D) - Crystal
  • Creating a PCB footprint (3D) - Crystal
  • Associating schematic symbol and PCB footprint - Crystal
  • Creating components through symbol wizard and IPC footprint wizard - ATMega
  • Altium Content Vault - copying from Altium's library into internal library
  • Quiz 2
Schematic Design and Verification
  • Schematic population - components
  • Keyboard shortcut and menu/shorcut customization
  • Physical wiring and power ports
  • Logical net labels and schematic annotation
  • Project compilation
  • Quiz 3
PCB Design: Board Design, Component Placement, Routing, Polgyon and Verification
  • PCB layers and navigation
  • Defining board shape
  • Component placement and alignment
  • Design rule check - clearances between component pads
  • PCB interactive routing - single, multi, layer-to-layer routing
  • Polygon manager
  • Design rule check
  • PCB global editing: find similar object, PCB List, PCB Inspector
  • Quiz 4
Editing the Libraries
  • Edit the schematic symbol and update the schematics
  • Edit the PCB footprint and update the PCB document
  • Quiz 5
Generating Outputs: Bill of Materials and Fabrication Files (Gerber, NC drill)
  • Generating bill of materials
  • Generating fabrication outputs: gerber, NC drill
  • All-in-one outjob file to manage output generation
  • Quiz 6