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Unlimited Learning. Live Support. You need layout software that integrates with component management tools, power and signal simulation tools, and layer stackup management features.
Furthermore, you need tools that are able to communicate with each other, and you need to be able to rely on your software to update any changes you document in your printed circuit board. Your PCB layout software should also allow you to customize your design rules for your particular application. Working within a unified design interface ensures your schematic editor and PCB layout obey the same set of design rules and constraints.
Even though PCBs are getting smaller and thinner over time, they also contain more layers and more interconnections between layers. With so much activity happening below the surface of your PCB, your design software should help you keep track of it all.
Your design rules are central for ensuring your design will meet your application requirements and be manufacturable at scale. This focus on applying design rules to all portions of your design is what makes Altium Designer the best PCB design software platform.
Learn more about online design rule checks in Altium Designer. Newer electronics are complex beasts, with components and features being packed into tighter spaces. Keeping up with these demands requires advanced circuit design, schematic capture, and layout tools. If you want to build devices that meet the highest industry standards of electronics design you need advanced design, data management, and analysis tools. Altium Designer is the only software package that includes all the best printed circuit design and analysis features, and much more.
Your circuit board designing software needs to include many features to help you create advanced technology. A model that maps the design data to specific production Items blank and assembled boards that the supply chain is actually going to build. With this model in place, and with a range of supporting features and technologies, the software enables you to design in a controlled way without loss of design freedom, with the assurance that you are using revisions of components and schematic sheets that are managed and approved for design use.
Subsequently, once the design is ready for release, you can pass data from the design domain to the production domain in a pain-free, streamlined, and automated fashion — generating data output of the highest integrity, literally at the touch-of-a-button!
System in-depth. Next Generation Component Management. Choosing the Variant in an Output Job File. Validation Output Reports. Driving Fabrication Outputs using a Variant. Including Release Information on Generated Outputs. Ansoft have partnered with Altium to provide a high-quality interoperability between the PCB design and it's electromagnetic field analyses.
Feature in-depth To offer more engaging, more useful documentation of your board, Altium Designer 10 provides the ability to generate PCB 3D Video documentation. For each subsequent key frame in the sequence, you can adjust zoom-level, pan and rotation — all relative to the settings for the previous key frame. In terms of output, a frame sequence is exported in video format using the configurable Video Output Container — part of the set of containers into which output from an Output Job file can be generated — and added to AD10 solely for generation of PCB 3D Video.
The result is a sequence of frames that smoothly interpolates the key frame sequence. Watch video Altium Designer's PCB Editor already has a well-defined grid system — with visible grids, snap grid, component grid, and electrical grid all working to help you efficiently place your design objects on the PCB document.
With Altium Designer 10, this system has been overhauled and taken to the next level, with the arrival of the Unified Cursor-Snap System. This system brings together three different sub-systems to collectively drive the way that the cursor snaps onto given sets of preferred coordinates: User-Definable Grids , available in both Cartesian and polar flavors; Snap Guides , that can be freely placed and provide a handy visual cue for object alignment; and enhanced object Snap-Points , enabling placed objects to pull the cursor into position based on cursor proximity to an object's hotspot s.
Use a combination of these features as you see fit, ensuring placement and alignment of your objects in the PCB workspace is a snap! Altium Designer already provides high-quality, robust support for generation of classes Component and Net when transferring the design from the Schematic to PCB. Altium Designer 10 takes this support to the next level, with the ability to define the generation of a hierarchical structure of classes in the PCB document.
Each of these generated parent classes is referred to as a Structure Class. Structure Classes not only allow for the reproduction of the schematic document structure within the PCB domain, for advanced navigation, but can also be used in logical queries, for example when scoping design rules, or filtering.
Like the idea of collaborative PCB design, where multiple designers can work on the same board at the same time, and bring their results together? Altium Designer 10 brings true collaboration to the PCB design process.
Through the new Collaborate, Compare and Merge panel you're informed about the status of your board, compared to your fellow collaborators.
Click on a command in the panel to Show the Differences, then use the Difference Map to get a high-level view of who has done what on the board. Click in the Map to zoom to an area of interest, then use right-click commands in the workspace to keep your changes, or pull the changes made by others into your board. There's even an Auto command, that automatically integrates all changes that do not conflict with your version of the board, making it a snap to bring in a large amount of routing from another designer.
When you're ready, the updates can be saved and committed back into the repository. Each designer can also define Work Regions, ensuring that everyone knows where they can work, and where they should not. Pick up any of the latest electronic gadgets today, and you'll probably find a cool user interface — complete with touch-sensitive controls such as buttons, sliders and wheels. The Polygon Pour Manager dialog delivers further productivity-enhancements in Altium Designer 10, providing additional functionality with which to manage all polygon pours for your board.
Additional abilities such as creation of a new polygon pour, access to associated properties dialog and polygon pour deletion, can all now be utilized from within this one location collectively enriching the environment and taking polygon pour management to a whole new level!
Right-click the component and choose Place to float it on your cursor. Then position it appropriately and press to insert. When the Explorer window floats on your workspace, it will quickly fade to enable you to view the schematic drop components. Right-click to leave the placement status. Click and drag- You can also click and remove parts from the Explorer window and place them on the Schematic.
You should hold your cursor down and release it to set the component. Based on your internet speed, you might experience a short delay before placing the parts. Place them to create a schematic similar to the diagram below.
Remember, the collapsible parts comprise tips on designing the placement process, which is more effective than developing after placement. You have successfully positioned the components. However, you should widely space the components as illustrated above to create enough space for wiring all the component pins. You require adequate spacing since you cannot position wires underneath pins to access them beyond the wires. Otherwise, you will link all the pins to the wire.
When moving components, press-and-hold them and relocate them by dragging the mouse. The first thing to do in adding a PCB is to wiring your board to create connectivity between the different parts. Luckily, the wiring process is easy.
As an illustration, refer to the diagram below. Then Finally, press and hold to relocate positioned components. You can also press ctrl, click, and hold at the same time to move the parts together with the wires. Every set of arts that you have linked is known as a net. For instance, a net can consist of base Q1, pin R1, and C1.
Altium naturally assigns every net a label based on the type of component pins. Before you relocate your schematic design to the circuit board editor, you should make a blank PCB, label, and save it.
There are several settings of the blank PCB that you need to modify before moving your schematic design. They include defining the origin, changing the imperial units to metric, choosing an appropriate snap grid, resizing the PCB shape to the recommended size, and arranging the design layers. The best way to delimit the shape of a non-rectangular PCB is by placing tracks on the keep-out layer. It would be best to move your Schematic directly from the schematic editor to the circuit board editor.
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