Learning Altium

Learn how to use Altium in electrical engineering projects. Find how to generate printed circuit board (PCB) designs in this introductory Altium course.

Introduction

• What is Altium?
• What you should know

1. Getting Started

• User interface
• Navigation tools
• System preferences

2. Schematic Design

• Start a new Altium project
• Installing and using libraries in Altium
• Placing component in schematics
• Component properties and inserting ports
• Wiring the schematic
• Annotate schematics
• Compiling an Altium project

3. PCB Design

• Layer Stack Manager
• Grids and units
• Board shape
• Pushing footprints from schematic to PCB
• Placing PCB footprints
• Design rule checks
• Routing the PCB layout

4. Libraries

• Library overview
• Creating schematic symbols
• Creating PCB footprints

5. Final Tools and Outputs

• PCB 2D and 3D views
• Using the PCB panel
• Generating final outputs

Conclusion

• Next steps