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Altium Designer Training

911EDA, Inc. offers a formal, classroom style Altium Designer schematic capture and PCB design training course designed to introduce the Altium Designer tool.  Students will learn about the basic components that make up Altium Designer, how to effectively utilize libraries, how to use the Schematic Editor and PCB Editor to create schematics and design PCB's, as well as basic commands and available customizations.

  • Our Altium training course is designed to following the standard design process and takes our students from start to finish of a sample project, teaching how to effectively and efficiently use the Altium Designer tool.
  • 4 days for up to 10 people
  • Includes comprehensive training manual
  • Call for pricing
  • At our facility or yours
Course Contents

1.     1.       Altium Designer Introduction

       2.       The Altium Designer Interface

2.1.            DXP

2.2.            The DXP Menu               

2.3.            The Workspace Panels

2.4.            The Document Bar

2.5.            The Panel Control

2.6.            The Status Bar

2.7.            The Command Status Bar

2.8.            The Home Page

3.       Altium Designer File Types

3.1.            Project Files

3.2.            Schematic Files

3.3.            PCB Files

3.4.            Library Files

3.5.            Outjob Files

3.6.            CAM Files

4.       Working With Altium Designer Files

4.1.            Creating a New Project

4.2.            Creating New Files

4.3.            Adding Files to a Project

4.4.            Removing a File from a Project

4.5.            Moving Files in the Project Tree

4.6.            Shortcut Files

4.7.            Opening Files Assigned to a Project

4.8.            Saving a Project

4.9.            Saving a File

4.10.        The “Save All” Feature

4.11.        Closing Files

4.12.        Closing Projects

4.13.        Opening an Existing Project

4.14.        Closing Altium Designer

4.15.        Workspaces

5.       Importing into Altium Designer

5.1.      Methods

6.       The Storage Manager and Version Control

6.1.            The Storage Manager

6.2.            Version Control

7.       The Text Editor and Web Browser

7.1.            The Text Editor

7.2.            The Web Browser

7.3.            HTML Documents

7.4.            The Support Center

8.       Customizing Altium Designer

8.1.            DXP Preferences

8.2.            System Settings

8.3.            Schematic Settings

8.4.            PCB Editor Settings

8.5.            PCB Editor – Board Insight Modes

8.6.            PCB Editor – Interactive Routing

8.7.            PCB Editor – Mouse Wheel Configuration

8.8.            PCB Editor – Defaults

8.9.            PCB Editor – Layer Colors

9.       Help for Altium Designer

9.1.            Knowledge Center

10.       Universal Commands

10.1.            Left Mouse Button

10.2.            Right Mouse Button

10.3.            Middle Mouse Button

10.4.            Mouse Wheel

10.5.            Keyboard Commands

10.6.            Shortcuts (Hotkeys)

10.7.            Menu Bar Items

11.       Altium Designer Libraries

11.1.            Adding Library Files

11.2.            Browsing a Library (The Library Panels)

11.3.            The Schematic Library Panel

11.4.            The Library Editor

11.5.            The Utilities Bar

11.6.            Grids

11.7.            The Model Manager

11.8.            Display Modes

11.9.            Parts (a.k.a. Instances)

11.10.        The PCB Library Panel

11.11.        The PCB Library Editor

11.12.        Color Tabs

11.13.        Creating a PCB Library Footprint

11.14.        Copying Components / Footprints

11.15.        Updating the SchDoc / PCBDoc

11.16.        Library Reports

12.       Schematic Capture

12.1.            Document Options

12.2.            Grids

12.3.            Utility Tools

12.4.            Placing Components

12.5.            Parts

12.6.            Wiring

12.7.            Hierarchy

12.8.            Annotation

12.9.            Project Compiling / Options

12.10.        Tools

12.11.        Schematic Reports

12.12.        Outjob Setup

13.       PCB Design

13.1.            View Configurations

13.2.            Color Tabs

13.3.            Layer Stack Management

13.4.            PCB Panel

13.5.            Grids

13.6.            Heads Up Display (HUD)

13.7.            Design Rule Setup

13.8.            Creating a Board Outline

13.9.            Importing Schematic Information

13.10.        Placement

13.11.        Plane Layers

13.12.        Routing

13.13.        Interactive Routing

13.14.        Smart Interactive Routing

13.15.        Differential Pair Routing

13.16.        Autorouting

13.17.        Routing Modifications

13.18.        Design Rule Checking

13.19.        Outjob Setup

 

 

 
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