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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 mechanisms
- Project preparation and maintaining a consistent file structure
- Creating and configuring a PCB project
- Local, version-controlled, and Workspace project locations
- Utilizing the classic PCB Rules and Constraints Editor
- Project parameters and parameter-driven schematic templates
- Shared Schematic Editor settings
- Schematic library structure and navigation
- Symbol origin, grid, units, and graphical primitives
- Pin designators, names, and electrical types
- Component parameters, models, and manufacturer data
- Footprint association and pin-to-pad mapping
- Creating schematic components for resistors, capacitors, and LEDs
- Schematic component approval checkpoint
Schematic Design and Validation
- Reviewing and approving component data
- Schematic connectivity and project architecture
- Wires, junctions, Net Labels, Power Ports, and directives
- Buses, Ports, and Off-Sheet Connectors
- Flat and hierarchical schematic structures
- Parent-child sheet relationships
- Repeated-channel and multichannel designs
- Component classes and PCB Rooms generated from schematic structure
- Design variants and project revisions
- Building a structured course schematic
- Error Reporting configuration
- Connection Matrix configuration
- No ERC settings and handling intentional exceptions
- Validation, compilation, and review of 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
- Creating PCB footprints
- Pads, holes, solder mask, and paste mask settings
- Mechanical layers, assembly data, and component outlines
- Adding and verifying 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 polygons
- 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 creation
- Final Online and Batch DRC
- PCB review checklist
- Preparing fabrication, assembly, and mechanical outputs
- Gerber or ODB++ data
- NC Drill files
- IPC-D-356 netlist
- Bill of Materials
- Pick-and-Place data
- Fabrication and assembly drawings
- STEP mechanical model
- Configuring repeatable outputs using Output Jobs
- Preparing 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
- Translating manufacturing limits into PCB design rules
- Correcting DFMA issues within the Rules Editor
- Generating the complete production package
- Opening and verifying the actual generated files
- Production package review and release gate
Controlled Release, Advanced Workflow, and Change Control
- Practical Altium 365 workflow
- Saving meaningful project revisions
- Reviewing project history
- Browser-based sharing and design review comments
- Classes, rule scope, and rule priorities
- Rooms and repeated-channel placement intent
- High-speed constraint dependency chain
- Defining differential pairs on the schematic
- Verifying differential-pair objects in the PCB
- Layer stack and impedance profiles
- Linking an impedance profile 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 an Engineering Change Order before execution
- Implementing a late engineering change
- Protecting existing PCB work during an update
- Re-running DRC and updating documentation
- Regenerating and verifying the production package
- Controlled re-release
- Complete PCB workflow and six release gates
- Company workflow adaptation
- Final review and Q&A
Requirements
Prerequisites
- A foundational grasp of electronics and the capacity to interpret circuit schematics.
- Acquaintance with core PCB concepts, including nets, layers, pads, vias, traces, and component footprints.
- Prior experience with Altium Designer is not a requirement.
- Proficiency with alternative ECAD tools, such as KiCad, EAGLE, or OrCAD, is beneficial but not mandatory.
Target Audience
- PCB designers and layout engineers new to Altium Designer or transitioning from a different ECAD platform.
- Electronics and electrical engineers responsible for schematic capture, PCB layout, design oversight, or manufacturing documentation.
- Technicians and hardware development team members who support component libraries, DRC, DFMA, production outputs, or engineering changes.
- Engineering teams seeking a consistent workflow that spans 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.
