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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
- Project locations: local, version control system, and Workspace
- Using the Classic PCB Rules and Constraints Editor
- Project parameters and parametric schematic templates
- Common Schematic Editor settings
- Schematic library structure and navigation
- Symbol reference points, grids, units, and graphical elements
- Pin numbers, names, and electrical types
- Component parameters, models, and manufacturer data
- Footprint association and pin-to-pad mapping
- Creating schematic symbols for resistors, capacitors, and LEDs
- Checkpoint: approval of schematic components
Schematic Design and Validation
- Reviewing and approving component data
- Schematic connections and project architecture
- Wires, junctions, Net Labels, Power Ports, and directives
- Buses, Ports, and Off-Sheet Connectors
- Flat and hierarchical schematic structures
- Parent and child sheet relationships
- Channel-based designs and multi-channel projects
- Component Classes and PCB Rooms generated from schematic structure
- Project variants and revisions
- Building an organized training schematic
- Error Reporting configuration
- Connection Matrix configuration
- ERC settings and intentional exception handling
- Validation, compilation, and Messages panel review
- Schematic review checklist
- Decision point before transfer to PCB
PCB Libraries, Configuration, and Basic Design Rules
- PCB library structure, navigation, grids, and coordinate systems
- Reading component datasheets and package drawings
- Creating PCB footprints
- Pad settings, holes, solder mask, and paste mask
- Mechanical layers, assembly data, and component outlines
- Adding and verifying 3D models
- Pin 1 indication 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 scopes, priorities, and object identification via queries
- Clearance, trace width, and via rules
- Online DRC and Batch DRC
- PCB Editor tools, keep-outs, and polygons
- PCB layout process and staged practical exercise
PCB Finalization, Production Data, and DFMA
- ECO review before project transfer to PCB
- Board shape and mechanical constraints
- Component placement and layout review
- Interactive routing and polygon creation
- Final Online DRC and Batch DRC
- PCB review checklist
- Preparing production, assembly, and mechanical data
- Gerber or ODB++ data
- NC Drill files
- IPC-D-356 Netlist
- Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Pick-and-Place data
- Production and assembly drawings
- STEP mechanical model
- Configuring repeatable output files in OutJob
- Preparing clear documentation in Draftsman
- Reading PCB manufacturer capability sheets
- Stack-up basics and controlled board construction
- Copper geometry, holes, vias, solder mask, and surface finish
- Translating manufacturing constraints into PCB design rules
- Fixing DFMA issues in the Rules Editor
- Generating a complete production package
- Opening and verifying the actually generated files
- Production package review and release decision
Controlled Release, Advanced Workflow, and Change Control
- Practical workflow in Altium 365
- Saving significant project revisions
- Reviewing project history
- Sharing projects in the browser and project review comments
- Classes, rule scopes, and rule priorities
- Rooms and placement assumptions for channel-based designs
- Constraint dependency chain for high-speed signals
- Defining differential pairs on the schematic
- Verifying differential pair objects in the PCB
- Stack-up and impedance profiles
- Associating impedance profiles with the Differential Pairs Routing rule
- Length and Matched Length rules
- Intra-pair skew and signal group matching
- Rule-based length tuning and its verification
- Schematic-to-PCB synchronization
- ECO review before execution
- Implementing a late-stage engineering change
- Protecting completed PCB work during updates
- Re-running DRC and updating documentation
- Regenerating and verifying the production package
- Controlled project re-release
- Complete PCB design process and six decision points
- Tailoring the workflow to the company
- Final review and Q&A
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Basic electronics knowledge and the ability to read schematics.
- Familiarity with basic PCB concepts such as nets, layers, pads, vias, traces, and component footprints.
- No prior experience with Altium Designer is required.
- Knowledge of another ECAD tool, such as KiCad, EAGLE, or OrCAD, is helpful but not mandatory.
Target Audience
- PCB designers and layout engineers starting with Altium Designer or migrating from another ECAD environment.
- Electronic and electrical engineers responsible for schematic creation, PCB layout, design review, or production documentation.
- Technicians and hardware development team members supporting component libraries, DRC, DFMA, production files, or engineering changes.
- Design teams aiming to implement a repeatable process from schematic to controlled production release.
Testimonials (3)
Practical projects and the instructor's responses to participant questions
Grzegorz Witkowski - FLYTRONIC S.A.
Course - Profesjonalny proces projektowania PCB w Altium Designer (MR)
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Demonstrating quick ways to accomplish specific tasks or activate the appropriate features within the software.
Sylwester Pyszak - FLYTRONIC S.A.
Course - Profesjonalny proces projektowania PCB w Altium Designer (MR)
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The perspective of a trainer who is a practitioner and understands our needs
Bartosz Blazejczyk - FLYTRONIC S.A.
Course - Profesjonalny proces projektowania PCB w Altium Designer (MR)
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