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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Project Setup, Interface, and Schematic Libraries
- Navigation of the Altium Designer interface, panels, editors, and project structure
- Utilizing Autosave, Local History, and version control features
- Preparing projects and maintaining a consistent file structure
- Creation and configuration of PCB projects
- Managing Local, version-controlled, and Workspace project locations
- Utilizing the classic PCB Rules and Constraints Editor
- Configuring project parameters and parameter-driven schematic templates
- Shared Schematic Editor settings
- Structuring and navigating schematic libraries
- Symbol origin, grid alignment, units, and graphical primitives
- Pin designators, naming conventions, and electrical types
- Component parameters, models, and manufacturer data integration
- Footprint association and pin-to-pad mapping
- Creating schematic components for resistors, capacitors, and LEDs
- Schematic component approval checkpoint
Schematic Design and Validation
- Review and approval of component data
- Schematic connectivity and overall project architecture
- Use of wires, junctions, Net Labels, Power Ports, and directives
- Implementation of Buses, Ports, and Off-Sheet Connectors
- Flat and hierarchical schematic structures
- Parent-child sheet relationships
- Designing repeated-channel and multichannel architectures
- Generating Component classes and PCB Rooms from schematic structure
- Managing design variants and project revisions
- Constructing the structured course schematic
- Configuring Error Reporting
- Configuring the Connection Matrix
- Handling No ERC settings and intentional exceptions
- Validation, compilation, and review via 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
- Interpreting component datasheets and package drawings
- Creation of PCB footprints
- Configuration of Pads, holes, solder mask, and paste mask settings
- Use of Mechanical layers, assembly data, and component outlines
- Integration and verification of 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 polygon management
- PCB design workflow and milestone-based exercises
PCB Completion, Manufacturing Outputs, and DFMA
- Reviewing the Engineering Change Order prior to PCB transfer
- Board shape and mechanical constraints
- Component placement and placement review
- Interactive routing and polygon generation
- Final Online and Batch DRC
- PCB review checklist
- Preparation of fabrication, assembly, and mechanical outputs
- Gerber or ODB++ data generation
- NC Drill file creation
- IPC-D-356 netlist
- Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Pick-and-Place data
- Fabrication and assembly drawings
- STEP mechanical model
- Configuring repeatable outputs using Output Jobs
- Creating human-readable documentation with Draftsman
- Interpreting PCB manufacturer capability sheets
- Stack-up and controlled-construction fundamentals
- Copper geometry, holes, vias, solder mask, and surface finish considerations
- Translating manufacturing limits into PCB design rules
- Correcting DFMA issues within the Rules Editor
- Generation of the complete production package
- Verification of actual generated files
- Production package review and release gate
Controlled Release, Advanced Workflow, and Change Control
- Practical Altium 365 workflow implementation
- Saving meaningful project revisions
- Reviewing project history
- Browser-based sharing and design review comments
- Managing Classes, rule scope, and rule priorities
- Using Rooms and repeated-channel placement intent
- High-speed constraint dependency chain
- Defining differential pairs on the schematic
- Verifying differential-pair objects within the PCB
- Layer stack and impedance profiles
- Linking impedance profiles 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 Engineering Change Orders before execution
- Implementing late-stage engineering changes
- Preserving existing PCB work during updates
- Re-running DRC and updating documentation
- Regeneration and verification of the production package
- Controlled re-release process
- Comprehensive PCB workflow overview and six release gates
- Adapting the workflow to company standards
- Final review and Q&A session
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Fundamental understanding of electronics and the capacity to interpret circuit schematics.
- Knowledge of core PCB concepts, including nets, layers, pads, vias, traces, and component footprints.
- Prior experience with Altium Designer is not a requirement.
- Proficiency in other ECAD tools, such as KiCad, EAGLE, or OrCAD, is beneficial but not mandatory.
Audience
- PCB designers and layout engineers new to Altium Designer or transitioning from other ECAD platforms.
- Electronics and electrical engineers managing schematic capture, PCB layout, design reviews, or manufacturing documentation.
- Technicians and hardware development team members supporting component libraries, DRC, DFMA, production outputs, or engineering change management.
- Engineering teams aiming to implement a repeatable workflow from schematic design to controlled production release.
Testimonials (1)
we write some code in GO and we learn some stuff regarding EDA like events, when and how.
