Length: 4 days

Overview: This course will explore in detail the Altium Designer environment as it relates to PCB design, taking new students from start of the PCB Project to the generation of manufacturing outputs and supporting documentation.

Description: Engineers and PCB Designers who need to learn about Altium Designer’s PCB design environment will complete this class with a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of Designing for PCBs within the Altium Designer environment. The major topics covered by this course include: Project Creation and management - Schematic Capture - Footprint, Symbol, and Library creation - Synchronization of Schematic and PCB - PCB Layout and Routing - Manufacturing Outputs - Documentation Outputs and Management. Students completing this course will have the solid knowledge foundation required to receive maximum benefit from our Advanced Training offerings relating to PCB design.

The topics covered in this course are:

Module 1: Getting Started With Altium Designer
Module 2: Help and DXP system menu
Module 3: Schematic Editor Basics
Module 4: Schematic Capture
Module 5: Multi-Sheet Design
Module 6: Building the Project
Module 7: Setting Up for Transfer to PCB and Importing Data
Module 8: PCB Editor Basics
Module 9: Setting up the PCB
Module 10: Global Editing
Module 11: PCB Design Flow, Transferring a Design and Navigation
Module 12: Design Rules
Module 13: Classes and Rooms
Module 14: Placement and Re-annotation
Module 15: Schematic Library Editor
Module 16: PCB Library Editor
Module 17: Linking Models, Parameters, Library Package and Updates
Module 18: Routing and Polygons
Module 19: Output Generation and CAM File Editing
Module 20: Interfacing to 3D Mechanical CAD