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A useful aid in getting up and running with a particular area of a software solution, is to consult a list of frequently asked questions. These might range from the general questions, such as “Where do I find this or that functionality? In some cases, we try to pre-empt the questions we think might be asked, or to highlight and reinforce important aspects of the software that we believe you should be made aware of. In addition, we often lower our bucket into the Altium Design Forums, skimming from a vast pool of knowledge on all aspects of the software, from the very people that are using the software day-in, day-out, in their working lives.

So go ahead and browse through the various FAQ listings, which are conveniently clustered into suitable categories. There just might be an answer to that question you need answering, and which can supply the helping hand to move through a ‘road-block’, and get you back into the productivity ‘fast-lane’.

By no means exhaustive, this listing of FAQs associated to designing with Altium will continue to grow over time, but all the while helping to unlock your full design potential when using the software. FAQs are clustered into the following areas, and further sub-clustered therein where it makes sense to do so :. As well as having complete freedom to arrange the panels, toolbars and documents being edited anywhere on your multiple monitors, you can also customize the menus, toolbars and shortcuts in Altium Designer.

To access the customization dialog for the current editor:. To prevent a panel from docking as you move it in floating mode, hold the Ctrl key down.

For those using Altium Designer But that doesn’t mean that you need miss out on the party! We’ve prepared zip files containing variants of the F1 mapping file found in Altium Designer HelpID – connecting each of these earlier versions to their corresponding documentation at altium. Download the applicable zip file and add the extracted files to your installation, as detailed below:. Yes, absolutely. The beauty of Managed Projects is that they are version controlled by default, and can be collaboratively worked upon without having to worry about shared drives, servers, agreements etc.

The project will initially only be available to you, the creator, and all Administrators for the Altium Vault. To make it accessible to others simply share it, by configuring its permissions. If the Convert to Managed Project command is not available, it means that the project is currently under Version Control in a local, or network VCS Design Repository , or has been so in the past. This can be resolved by creating a ‘clean’ copy of the project one not associated with VCS in another local folder and converting that version to a Managed Project.

To do this:. To examine design variations, you must compile the design and then switch to the compiled tab of the schematic.

The Variants toolbar can then be used to show the configuration of the physical components on that sheet, for the variant chosen in the toolbar. After selecting an alternate part, the software checks for pin-compatibility between the chosen alternate component, and the original base design component. To be pin-compatible, the alternate must have the same number of pins as the original component, and those pins must be identical in their location, and electrical type.

No equality in the graphical primitives used in the symbols for the two components is required. If the software detects that the alternate component is not pin-compatible, a Confirm dialog will appear, requiring your OK to proceed with the replacement.

While you can proceed with the use of a pin-incompatible alternate component, bear in mind the potential impact on the wiring, and that you may also encounter an error violation when performing a subsequent compilation of the design. Each mode must include the same set of pins, if they do not a warning will be generated when the project is compiled. This is required as you can only define one set of pin-to-pad mappings for each footprint.

Pins can be hidden in a mode if required, and do not need to be in the same location in each mode. On the design side, each design component released to a vault is specified using a source Component Definition. A component definition is simply just that – a definition of a particular design component. A definition that ties together the required models and parameters for that component in a clean and ordered fashion.

Each component definition on the design-side maps to an Item – a Component Item – in the target vault. To put this another way, you are defining the source definitions that will, when released, provide a set of components which you can re-use again and again in your designs. CmpLib is the design-side entity in which to create and manage one or more component definitions. Each component definition is mapped to a unique Component Item in a target vault.

To put that another way, each vault-based component is produced by releasing a design-side component definition, stored in a Component Library file. Yes and No. When a source component definition in a Component Library is first released, the resulting Component Item, referred to as a vault-based component, simply represents the engineering, or design view of that component.

It is, in essence, a container into which all information used to model that component in the Design Area is stored. It has great meaning to the designer using it in a board design, but is not meaningful outside of the design arena.

To become a truly ‘Unified Component’, that unites the Design and Supply Chain areas, the Component Item must be mapped to physical, real-world manufactured parts. This is done by specifying Part Choices for the component, which are saved into a revision of an associated Part Choice List Item in the vault.

And it is this intelligent mapping of a component – from the traditional electronics design arena into the bigger ‘product arena’ as seen by the rest of the organization – that turns the humble vault-based component into a truly Unified Component!

The Release Manager provides a migration tool that allows you to quickly generate Component Libraries from existing Schematic Libraries. Component Libraries can also be generated directly from the active Schematic Library or Database Library , using a dedicated command available from the main Tools menu. Each placed component has a link back to the source Component Item in the vault. This information can be found in the associated properties dialog for the component.

At this lowest, individual component level, the placed instance can be updated to a later revision of the same Component Item or changed to a totally different Component Item simply by clicking the Choose button. The Choose Item dialog will appear, with the currently linked Item and revision thereof focused in the source vault. Select the later revision, or browse for another Component Item to use. For a single, centralized place from which to effect multiple changes in a batch-like manner, use the Item Manager Tools » Item Manager.

You have full control over which of these managed entities to update, and how. Select an entry and choose a later revision of the linked Item to be used. Select a group of entries that utilize the same linked Item and choose the next revision in one hit.

All proposed changes are reflected back in the manager. Once changes have been set up as required, simply generate and execute an Engineering Change Order ECO to effect those changes. Use of the Live Links to Supplier Data feature does not require you to be signed in to your Altium account.

Searching is conducted directly with the Suppliers through web services. However, when displaying pricing information in alternate currencies, exchange rates for currency conversion are refreshed daily, provided you are signed in to your account.

Making use of these additional supplier options is a wholly optional exercise. You are not required to fill out these details on the Data Management – Suppliers page of the Preferences dialog in order to use the Live Links to Supplier Data feature, they simply offer additional benefits if you are an existing customer of a particular supplier, should you wish to access them. This will happen when you are signed in to your company’s Altium Vault. The Altium Vault dictates centrally which Suppliers are to be used in an organization.

While connected to it, the list of Suppliers on the Data Management – Suppliers page of the Preferences dialog will be disabled. It will simply be a read-only reflection of this centrally-defined list, which itself is defined on the Suppliers page of the vault’s browser based interface.

The Libraries panel is not used for managing and accessing Pad Via Libraries. You can think of a flat design as if a large schematic sheet has been cut up into a number of smaller sheets – in a flat design all sheets exist on the same level. The connectivity in a flat design is created directly from any sheet to any another sheet – this type of connectivity is referred to as horizontal connectivity.

A hierarchical design is one which has Sheet Symbols to create the parent-child type relationships between the sheets, and , the connectivity is through the Sheet Entries in those Sheet Symbols – not directly from the Ports on one sheet to the Ports on another sheet. It is The Net Identifier Scope that defines how you want the sheet-to-sheet connectivity to be created. This is set in the Options tab of the Options for Project dialog.

A design is flat when the connectivity is directly from one sheet to another – this connective behavior is defined by setting the Net Identifier Scope to Automatic , Flat or Global. Note that if you choose to use a mixture of Ports and Net Labels to create sheet-to-sheet connectivity, you cannot use the Automatic option, in this situation you must manually set the Net Identifier Scope to Global.

A design is hierarchical when the sheet-to-sheet connectivity is only between Sheet Entries on the parent sheet and matching Ports on the child sheet – this connective behavior is defined by setting the Net Identifier Scope to Automatic , Hierarchical or Strict Hierarchical. A multi-channel design must be hierarchical because the software uses this structural model to instantiate the channels in memory when the design is compiled.

The duplication of components and nets is resolved by the software, using the naming scheme selected on the Multi-Channel tab of the Options for Project dialog. By default, positional annotation is based on the location of the component’s designator.

If your positional annotation is not performing according to your expectations, ensure that the designators are positioned correctly. Alternatively, you can opt to use the part – more specifically the center of the part – as the reference for component location. Choice of using Designator or Part is specified within the Annotate dialog.

Note that not all image editors place the image data into the clipboard as metafile data. One approach to ensure that this happens, is to first paste the image into Microsoft Word, then copy it from there and paste it into Altium Designer.

Supported metafile data includes bitmaps, lines, arcs, simple fills, and true type text – allowing you to easily paste logos and other graphical symbols. Imported data will be put onto the current layer, adopting the color you have chosen for that layer.

The PCB objects created during the paste process are automatically added to a Union. After pasting, the Union’s editing handles can be used to fine-tune the size of the pasted image. Unions resulting from a paste can also be resized at any time using the Resize Union command from the right-mouse menu click to select the required union after launching the command.

For a graphic this option has no impact – each independent shape in the graphic is converted to a region object. When pasting a text string, each character is converted to a text string if the option is set to Metafile , whereas the entire string is pasted as an Altium Designer string, if the option is set to Text. The Altium logo being pasted as a graphic, each letter in the graphic is converted into a region object.

It is possible to create a custom TrueType font that contains a graphic as a glyph one of the characters in the font and then place a string on the PCB board that uses that font. As well as the ease of use, another great advantage of this method is that if the font glyphs are created from vector graphic images, then they can be accurately scaled.

The font is available for download here dated June , and you can also check the Altium Designer forum thread , for more recent versions in the latest posts.

The font is licensed as Cardware, refer to the Readme.

 

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Note that you always remain constrained by the design rules, if you enter a value larger or smaller than permitted by the applicable design rule it will be clipped to the nearest rule value.

Avoid using the Min and Max settings to define a single rule to suit all sizes required in the entire design, doing this means you forgo the ability to get the software to monitor that each design object is appropriately sized for its task. The default Routing Width design rule has been configured. This Width rule targets the power nets. Main article: Clearance Constraint. The next step is to define how close electrical objects that belong to different nets, can be to each other.

This requirement is handled by the Electrical Clearance Constraint, for the tutorial a clearance of 0. Note that entering a value into the Minimum Clearance field will automatically apply that value to all of the fields in the grid region at the bottom of the dialog. You only need to edit in the grid region when you need to define a clearance based on the object-type. The electrical clearance constraint is defined between objects.

Switch the Constraints to Advanced to display all object kinds. Main article: Routing Via Style. As you route and change layers a via is automatically added, in this situation the via properties are defined by the applicable Routing Via Style design rule. If you place a via from the Place menu, its values are defined by the in-built default primitive settings.

For the tutorial, you will configure the Routing Via Style design rule. A single routing via is suitable for all nets in this design. You might have noticed that the transistor pads are showing that there is a violation.

Right-click over a violation and select the Violations in the right-click menu, as shown below. The details show that there is a:. Right-click on a violation to examine what rule is being violated, and the violation conditions. In this image the display is in single layer mode, with the multi-layer as the active layer.

This violation will be discussed and resolved shortly. If you find the violation markers distracting, you can clear them by running the Tools » Reset Error Markers command. This command only clears the marker, it does not hide or remove the actual error. The error will be flagged again the next time you perform an edit action that runs the online DRC such as moving the component , or when you run the batch DRC.

Altium Designer’s internal defaults for a new board are Imperial. That means when you switch to Metric, settings such as the Soldermask expansion will change from rounded values like 4mil, to 0. While that least significant digit, such as 0.

Select Design Rules at the top of the tree on the left of the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor , then you can scan down the Attributes column for all of the rules and quickly locate any that need their values adjusted. Design rules can also be exported and stored in a.

Select the rules you wish to export using the standard Windows selection techniques, then click OK to export the selected rules. While you could argue about the percentage of each, it is generally accepted that good component placement is critical for good board design.

Keep in mind that you may need to tune the placement as you route too. When you click and hold on a component to move it, if the Snap to Center option is on, then the component will move to be held by its reference point. The reference point is the 0,0 coordinate of the component, when it was built in the library editor. The Smart Component Snap option allows you to override this snap to center behavior and snap to the nearest component pad instead, handy when you need to position a specific pad in a specific location.

Enable Snap to Center to always hold the component by its reference point. Smart Component Snap is helpful when you need to align by a specific pad. Components positioned on the board. Select, then align and space the resistors. Selected objects can also be moved using the keyboard rather than the mouse.

To do this, hold Ctrl , then each time you press an Arrow key the selection will move 1 grid step in the direction of that arrow. Include the Shift key to move selected objects in 10x Snap Grid steps. When you are moving a component with the mouse, you can constrain it to an axis by holding the Alt key. The component will attempt to hold the same horizontal axis if moving horizontally or vertical axis if moving vertically – move it further from the axis to override this behavior, or release the Alt key.

Main article: Interactive Routing. Routing is the process of laying tracks and vias on the board to connect the component pins.

The PCB editor makes this job easy by providing sophisticated interactive routing tools, as well as the topological autorouter, which optimally routes the whole or part of a board at the click of a button. While autorouting provides an easy and powerful way to route a board, there will be situations where you will need exact control over the placement of tracks. In these situations you can manually route part or all of your board. In this section of the tutorial, you will manually route the entire board single-sided, with all tracks on the top layer.

The Interactive Routing tools help maximize routing efficiency and flexibility in an intuitive way, including cursor guidance for track placement, single-click routing of the connection, pushing obstacles, automatically following existing connections, all in accordance with applicable design rules.

Configure the interactive routing options. Time to set the Snap Grid to a value that is suitable for routing. A simple animation showing the board being routed. Note how the segments are displayed differently.

Keep an eye on the Status bar , it displays important information during interactive routing, including:. The PCB editor’s Interactive Routing engine supports a number of different modes, with each mode helping the designer deal with particular situations. To modify an existing route, there are two approaches, either: reroute , or re-arrange. A simple animation showing the Loop Removal feature being used to modify existing routing.

Note that there are situations where you may want to create loops, for example power net routing. If necessary, Loop Removal can be disabled for an individual net by editing that net in the PCB panel.

To access the option set the panel to Nets mode, then double click on the net name in the panel to open the Edit Net dialog. An animation showing track dragging being used to tidy up existing routing. An example of dragging multiple tracks, by setting the routing conflict mode to Push. Before you begin exploring the autorouter, save your board so you can return to the interactively routed version if you want. Altium Designer also includes a topological autorouter. A topological autorouter uses a different method of mapping the routing space – one that is not geometrically constrained.

Rather than using workspace coordinate information as a frame of reference dividing it into a grid , a topological autorouter builds a map using only the relative positions of the obstacles in the space, without reference to their coordinates. Topological mapping is a spatial-analysis technique that triangulates the space between adjacent obstacles. This triangulated map is then used by the routing algorithms to “weave” between the obstacle pairs, from the start route point to the end route point.

The greatest strengths of this approach are that the map is shape independent the obstacles and routing paths can be any shape and the space can be traversed at any angle – the routing algorithms are not restricted to purely vertical or horizontal paths, as with a rectilinear expansion routers.

Translating this into a user interface, the router has a number of different routing passes available; such as Fan Out to Plane, Main, Memory, Spread, Recorner, and so on. These are bundled together to create a Routing Strategy, which the designer can then run on their board.

There are a number of pre-defined strategies already available in the Routing Strategies dialog, and new ones are easily created using the Strategy Editor. Select an existing routing strategy, or create a new one in the Strategy Editor. Note that the default strategies cannot be edited, duplicate one to explore the strategies.

The images below show the autorouting results using: the Default 2 Layer Board Strategy on the left; a user-defined strategy in the middle the chosen routing passes are shown in the dialog image above ; and that same strategy restricted to top layer only by clicking the Edit Layer Directions button in the Situs Routing Strategies dialog, to disable the use of the bottom layer , on the right.

Autorouting results for the default 2 layer strategy left image , a user-defined strategy center image , and the same user-defined strategy limited to the top layer only. The PCB editor is a rules-driven board design environment, in which you can define many types of design rules that can be checked to ensure the integrity of your board. Typically you set up the design rules at the start of the design process.

The on-line DRC feature will monitor the enabled rules as you work and immediately highlight any detected design violations. Alternatively, you can also run a batch DRC to test that the design complies with the rules, generating a report that details the enabled rules and any detected violations.

Earlier in the tutorial you examined the routing design rules, adding a new width constraint rule targeting the power nets, as well as an electrical clearance constraint and a routing via style rule.

As well as these, there are a number of other design rules that are automatically defined when a new board is created. Altium Designer has two techniques for displaying design rule violations, each with their own advantages. Violations can be displayed as a colored overlay and also as a detailed message, with different symbols being used to show different detail of the error type.

Violations are shown in solid green left image , as you zoom in this changes to the selected Violation Overlay Style center image , as you zoom in further Violation Details are added. When you create a new board, it will include default design rules that might not be needed for your design. For example, Assembly and Fabrication Testpoint type design rules are included when you create a new board, which are not needed in this design. Before proceeding to check the board for violations, open the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor , drill down to the Testpoint category and disable the 4 Testpoint type rules.

The rules that are needed will depend on the nature of your design, there is no specific set of rules that suits every design. Keep this in mind as you are checking rule violations, ask yourself do I need this rule to be enabled? If you’re attempting to work out the function of a rule in the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor and are unsure, click anywhere in the constraints area of the rule and press F1 for more information about that specific rule. Main article: Design Rule Checker. The design is checked for violations by running the Design Rule Checker.

Run the Tools » Design Rule Check command to open the dialog. Both online and batch DRC are configured in this dialog.

Rule checking, both online and batch, is configured in the Design Rule Checker dialog. Checking is configured for each rule type, use the right-click menu to enable the Used design rules.

Click the Run Design Rule Check button at the bottom of the dialog to perform a design rule check. When the button is clicked the DRC will run, then:. The upper section in the report details the rules that are enabled for checking and the number of detected violations, click on a rule to jump down the report and examine those errors. The lower section of the report shows each rule that is being violated, followed by a list of the objects in error.

Click on an error to jump to that object on the PCB. When you are new to the software, a long list of violations can initially seem overwhelming. A good approach to managing this is to disable and enable rules in the Design Rule Check dialog, at different stages of the design process.

It is not advisable to disable the design rules themselves if there are violations, just the checking of them. For example, you would always disable the Un-Routed Net check until the board is fully routed. The Violation Details show that the clearance between these 2 pads is less that 0. So you’ve found an error, how do you know how much it has failed by? As the designer you need this essential information, to be able to decide how best to resolve the error. For example, if the rule says the allowable minimum solder mask sliver is 0.

But if the actual sliver value is 0. Measuring the distance between the edges of adjacent pads, using the Measure Primitives command. Apart from actually measuring the distance, there are a number of approaches to finding out how much a rule has failed by.

You can use:. The right-click Violations submenu was described earlier in the Existing Design Rule Violation section. The PCB Rules and Violations panel is an excellent feature for locating and understanding error conditions. The panel details the violation type, the measured value, the rule setting and the objects that are in violation. Dim and Mask are display filter modes, where everything other than the object s of interest are faded, leaving only the chosen object s at normal display strength.

The Dim mode applies the filter but still allows all workspace objects to be edited, the Mask mode filters out all other workspace objects, only allowing the unfiltered object s to be edited.

The amount that the display is faded is controlled by the Dim and Mask slider controls, click the Mask Level button down the bottom right to display the sliders. Experiment with these when you have the Mask mode or Dim mode applied. As the designer you have to work out the most appropriate way of resolving each design rule violation.

Let’s start with the solder mask errors as they are related, and both error conditions may be affected by the changes you make to solder mask settings. The solder mask is a thin, lacquer-like layer applied to the outer surface of the board, providing a protective and insulating covering for the copper.

Opening are created in the mask for components and wires to be soldered to the copper, it is these openings that are displayed as objects on the solder mask layer in the PCB editor note that the solder mask layer is defined in the negative – the objects you see become holes in the actual solder mask.

During fabrication, solder mask is applied using different techniques, the lowest cost approach is to silkscreen it onto the board surface through a mask.

To allow for layer alignment issues, the mask openings are typically larger than the pads, reflected by the 4mil 0. There are other techniques for applying solder mask which offer higher-quality layer registration and more accurate shape definition, if these techniques are used the solder mask expansion can be smaller or even zero.

Reducing the mask opening reduces the chance of having solder mask slivers or silk to solder mask clearance errors. A solder mask sliver error shown on the left and a silk to solder mask clearance error on the right, the purple represents the solder mask expansion around each pad. Errors such as these solder mask issues cannot be resolved without consideration of the fabrication technique that will be used to make the finished board.

For example, if this was a complex, multi-layer board for a high-value product, then it is likely that a high quality solder mask technology would be employed, which would allow a small or zero solder mask expansion.

However, for a simple double-sided board like the tutorial it is more likely it will be targetting a low-cost product, requiring a low-cost solder mask technology to be used. That means resolving the solder mask sliver errors by reducing the solder mask expansion for the entire board is not a realistic solution.

Like many aspects of PCB design, the solution lies in making thoughtful trade-offs in a focused way, to minimize their impact. This is a design decision which would be made in light of your knowledge of the component, and the fabrication and assembly technology that is going to be used.

Opening the mask to completely remove the mask between the transistor pads means that there is more chance of creating solder bridges between those pads, whereas decreasing the mask opening will still leave a sliver, which may or may not be acceptable, and will also introduce the possibility of mask-to-pad registration problems.

For this tutorial you will do a combination of the second and third options, decreasing the minimum sliver width to a value suitable for the settings being used on this board, and also decreasing the mask expansion, but only for the transistor pads.

You can use the Query Builder to help create the new rule. The function of this rule is to ensure there is sufficient separation between the silkscreen objects and the copper. The rule supports checking against the opening in the mask, or checking against the copper exposed by that opening in the mask.

Edit the clearance to be 0. Since the 0. This can be done in the existing Clearance Constraint design rule, as shown below.

Main article: Silk to Silk Clearance. The last error to resolve is the silk to silk clearance violations. These are usually caused by a designator being too close to the outline of an adjacent component.

You design may not have any of these violations – it depends on how close you placed the components, or if you have already repositioned the designators.

Click and hold on a designator to move it – all objects will dim apart from the objects in the component whose designator is being moved – move that designator to a new location. Reposition any designator that is causing a silk to silk violation. Well done! You have completed the PCB layout and are ready to produce output documentation. Before doing that, let’s explore the PCB editor’s 3D capabilities.

A powerful feature of Altium Designer is the ability to view your board as a 3 dimensional object. The board will display as a 3 dimensional object – the tutorial board is shown below. You can fluidly zoom the view, rotate it and even travel inside the board using the following controls:. Hold Shift to display the 3D view directional sphere, then click and drag the right-mouse button to rotate. If you plan on using the 3D mode regularly then you might like to check out a 3D mouse, such as the Space Navigator from 3Dconnexion , which greatly simplifies the process of moving and rotating the board in 3D layout mode.

Now that you’ve completed the design and layout of the PCB, you’re ready to produce the output documentation needed to get the board reviewed, fabricated and assembled. The ultimate objective is to fabricate and assemble the board. Because a variety of technologies and methods exist in PCB manufacture, the software has the ability to produce numerous output types for different purposes:.

An Output Job file allows you to configure each output type, configure their output naming, format and output location. Output Job files can also be copied from one project to another. Although the setup dialogs for individual outputs are the same as those used in an Output Job, the settings are independent and must be configured again if you switch from one approach to the other.

Main article: Gerber Setup. Configure the Gerber outputs in the Gerber Setup dialog. Main article: Report Manager. Excel-format BoM’s can also have a template applied using one of the pre-defined templates, or one of your own. The default configuration for a new BoM is to group like components together.

This BoM has been reconfigured to present each component as a unique entry. When creating the Bill of Materials template in Excel, a combination of Fields and Columns can be used to specify the desired layout. A list of available fields is detailed below:. Fields provide project-level information.

These are not usually attached to each item listed in the BOM, but are often used in the header of the document. Fields are used in the format:.

As well as the default Fields listed in the table above, schematic Document Parameters both default and user-defined in the schematic Document Options dialog and Project Parameters Options for PCB Project dialog can also be used as Fields. If the same parameter exists as both a document parameter and a project parameter, the project parameter takes precedence.

If the same document parameter exists in multiple documents, the document parameter that is higher up in the heirarchy takes precedence. Columns provide the information that is supplied on a per-component basis, and would usually appear on each line in the BOM. Columns are defined by entering the column heading, in the format:. Pick and Place information can also be included from the PCB. Note that these are updated live, and are retrieved when the BOM is generated.

Multiple suppliers can be set up for each component. In the table below, these have been described as Supplier Info x – replace x with the appropriate number. If you have just edited parameters in the schematic and want to see them in the BoM, save the edited documents and recompile the project before generating the BoM.

Note that Fields need to be defined above or below the Column region of the template. Using Altium Documentation. Now reading version Creating a new project:. In the Name field, enter Multivibrator. There is no need to add the file extension, this will be added automatically.

Enable the Create Project Folder option, this will create a sub-folder below the folder specified in the Location field, with the same name as the project. In the Location field, type in a suitable location to save the project files, or click Browse to navigate to the required folder. Click OK to close the dialog and create the project file in the specified location.

The new project will appear in the Projects panel. If this panel is not displayed, click the button at the bottom right of the main design window, and select Files from the menu that appears.

These features will not be used for this tutorial. Adding a schematic:. Right-click on the project filename in the Projects panel, and select Add New to Project » Schematic.

A blank schematic sheet named Sheet1. SchDoc will open in the design window and an icon for this schematic will appear linked to the project in the Projects panel, under the Source Documents folder icon. To save the new schematic sheet, select File » Save As. The Save As dialog will open, ready to save the schematic in the same location as the project file. Type the name Multivibrator in the File Name field and click Save. Since you have added a schematic to the project, the project file has changed too.

Right-click on the project filename in the Projects panel, and select Save Project to save the project. Configuring the Document Options:. For this tutorial, the only change we need to make here is to set the sheet size to A4, this is done in the Standard Styles field of the Sheet Options tab of the dialog. Confirm that both the Snap and Visible Grids are set to Click OK to close the dialog and update the sheet size. Save the schematic by selecting File » Save shortcut: F, S. Searching through libraries:.

If it is not visible, display the Libraries panel System » Libraries. Press the Search button in the Libraries panel to open the Libraries Search dialog, as shown above.

Ensure that the dialog options are set as follows: For the first Filter row, the Field is set to Name , the Operator set to contains , and the Value is The Scope is set to Search in Components , and Libraries on path. This indicates that it has been added to the Workspace’s version control system VCS but is yet to be committed saved.

To commit the project, click the Save to Server control next to the project name in the Projects panel. This provides a quick visual summary of which documents are modified, saved, and their version control status. Some document icons that you might encounter when working on this tutorial project and their meanings are listed below.

Open The document is open as a tabbed document in the design editor window. Open and locally modified The document is open and has been modified yet to be saved locally. No modification The local copy of the file matches the file in the Workspace and is up to date. Scheduled for Addition A file has been added to version control but not yet committed to the Workspace’s VCS repository.

Modified The local copy of the file has been modified and saved to the working folder but not yet committed to the Workspace’s VCS repository. Adding a schematic. Configuring the Document Options. If the Properties panel is not visible, click the button at the bottom right of the application window and select Properties from the menu that opens. The General tab of the Properties panel in its Document Options mode when nothing is selected is divided into the following sections: Selection Filter , General and Page Options.

Select a template for the schematic sheet from those that are stored in your Workspace. The Update Template dialog will open. In the information dialog that opens, click the OK button. For the Visible Grid and Snap Grid , set the mil value. Save the schematic locally — right-click the schematic in the Projects panel and select Save. To learn more about any of the controls in the Properties panel, press F1 when the cursor is over the panel. For this tutorial, all of the parts will be acquired from the Manufacturer Part Search panel to your Workspace.

Throughout the tutorial, the terms component and part are both used to describe the design components you will be placing and wiring. Tips for working in the Manufacturer Part Search panel. Categories are accessed using the drop-down, indicated by number 1 in the image above.

Click the button to toggle the Filters list on and off number 2 in the image. The contents of the Filters list changes to suit the category of the component being searched. Some of the Filter fields include text boxes to enter numeric values. Press Enter on the keyboard to apply the value. If the results list does not update, click in the Search field and press Enter on the keyboard. Click on a column heading to sort the results by that column.

Panels and dialogs that support searching for components have a normal mode and a compact mode. Tips for working with the search results. If the manufacturer provides an image of the part, it will be displayed. Next to the image is the Manufacturer Part Number MPN , which is also link to detailed information about the part on the Octopart website indicated by the number 1 in the image above.

The icon indicates that there are models available for this part. Click the button at the top right of the panel to display detailed part information, including the models.

Click anywhere on a row to select that part. The row will highlight and a second link will appear indicating the number of suppliers who can deliver that part number 2 in the image above. Click the link to display detailed supply chain information about the suppliers that carry that part, ordered by availability and price.

Each Supplier’s details about that part are presented on a tile with a colored banner. Details about the icons and information in each tile are given below.

Click the panel’s button to configure: the currency used, if invalid SPNs should be excluded display only suppliers that show suitable stock levels and up-to-date data , or configure the available suppliers.

Understanding the information in the SPN Tile. Country code for the Supplier location ISO alpha 2. Source of the part information typically the Altium Parts Provider. Unit price: red if no price available. Unit price is shown in currency configured in the panel settings.

Packaging of supplied parts; hover for details. Available price breaks with Minimum Order Quantities. The Filters region of the panel includes a Has Model filter. Enable this to only display design-ready parts. Click to display the available filters. Finding and Acquiring the Transistor. Open the Manufacturer Part Search panel if not already — click the button at the bottom right of the application window and select Manufacturer Part Search from the menu.

Use panel’s Search field to search for: transistor BC Display the Component Details pane of the panel using the button or using the button at the bottom of the panel if the panel is in its compact mode so that you can explore the properties and models of the selected component. You will be choosing a component that includes a symbol and footprint. When the required transistor is selected in the panel, click the Download drop-down in the top region of the Component Details pane and select Acquire.

A status dialog will open while the component is saved to the Workspace. When this is complete, the Component Editor will close. Finding and Acquiring the Capacitor. In the Create new component dialog that opens, select the Capacitors component type and click OK. Leave other data values at their defaults and select the File » Save to Server command from the main menus. Finding and Acquiring the Resistors. In the Create new component dialog that opens, select the Resistors component type and click OK.

Finding and Acquiring the Connector. The last component to find is the 2-pin header. Return to the Manufacturer Part Search panel. This time you will use the panel’s faceted searching capabilities.

Click the Filters button to display the Filters pane. The list of available filters is dynamically updated to suit the category being used and can be quite long.

To help manage it, only the most commonly-used filters are displayed. Scroll to the bottom of the list and click the link to display all of the available filters. Using the following search terms, apply the filters and select the options listed below: Search for Choose has model Has Model: Yes contacts Number of Contacts: 2 pitch Terminal Pitch: 2.

Press X to flip it along the X-axis; press Y to flip it along the Y-axis. Press Tab to display the Properties panel and edit the properties of an object prior to placement. The values entered become the defaults. If the designator has the same prefix, it will be auto-incremented.

During component placement, the software will automatically pan if you touch the window edge. Autopanning is configured in the Schematic — Graphical Editing page of the Preferences dialog. The transparency of floating panels is configured in the System — Transparency page of the Preferences dialog. Working with the Properties panel during Placement During object placement, if you press Tab the editing process will pause and the interactive Properties panel in its appropriate mode will open.

In this tutorial, all of the components are acquired from the Manufacturer Part Search panel to your Workspace. The information in the collapsible section below is included to give you a basic overview of how to work with non-Workspace library components.

Working with non-Workspace Library Components. SchLib , which are stored locally. Each symbol can become a component by adding links to a PCB footprint, then adding component parameters to detail the component’s specifications. PcbLib , which are stored locally. The footprint includes the electrical elements, such as the pads, as well as the mechanical elements, such as the component overlay, dimensions, glue dots, and so on.

IntLib , stored locally. Doing this results in a single, portable library that holds all the models and symbols. PcbLib added to it as source documents. As part of the compilation process, you can also check for potential problems, such as missing models and mismatches between schematic pins and PCB pads.

Altium database library An intermediate database library file DbLib presents an external ODBC data source as an Altium component library each record specifies a component. The Altium models symbol, footprint, etc. The DbLib database fields are mapped to component parameters. These are retrieved and added to the component during placement from the DbLib. Library searching is actually performed using queries. In the File-based Libraries Search dialog, switch to the Advanced mode to examine the query.

Hover the cursor over the image above to show the search dialog in Advanced mode. Placing the Transistors. Select View » Fit Document from the main menus shortcut: V, D to ensure your schematic sheet takes up the full editing window.

Open the Components panel if not already — click the button at the bottom right of the application window and select Components from the menu. Click the button at the top of the Components panel and select Refresh from the menu to update the panel’s content with the components acquired from Manufacturer Part Search. Display the Component Details pane of the panel using the button or using the button at the bottom of the panel when the panel is in its compact mode so that you can explore the properties and models of the selected component.

Do not place the transistor yet! Placing the Capacitors. Return to the Components panel and search for: capacitor 22nF 16V Select the found capacitor in the search result grid, right-click on it then select Place from the context menu.

While the capacitor is floating on the cursor, press the Tab key to open the Properties panel. In the General section of the panel, type in the Designator C1. Click the Show More link in the panel’s Parameters region to show the full list of component parameters.

Placing the Resistors. Select the found K resistor in the search result grid and display the footprint in the Models section of the panel. Select the M variety as shown in the image below. This selection can be done before the component is placed on the schematic during schematic placement or after schematic placement. While the resistor is floating on the cursor, press the Tab key to open the Properties panel. In the General section of the panel, type in the Designator R1.

In the Parameters section of the panel, enable the visibility of the Resistance parameter and disable the visibility of other parameters. Leave all other fields at their default values and click the Pause button to return to part placement; the resistor will be floating on the cursor.

Position the resistor above and to the left of the base of Q1 refer to the schematic diagram shown previously and click the left mouse button or press Enter to place the part. Next, place the other k resistor, R2, above and to the right of the base of Q2. The designator will automatically increment when you place the second resistor.

Exit part placement mode by clicking the right mouse button or pressing the Esc key. The cursor will revert back to a standard arrow. Select the found 1K resistor in the search result grid and display the footprint in the Models section of the panel.

Select the M variety. Right-click on the resistor in the search results grid and select Place from the context menu. In the General section of the panel, type in the Designator R3.

Position and place R3 directly above the Collector of Q1, then place R4 directly above the Collector or Q2, as shown in the image above. Right-click or press Esc to exit part placement mode. Placing the Connector. Return to the Components panel and search for: connector male straight. Select the found connector in the search result grid, right-click on it then select Place from the context menu. While the header is floating on the cursor, press Tab to open the Properties panel and set the Designator to P1.

Click the Pause button to return to part placement. Before placing the header, press Spacebar to rotate it to the correct orientation. Click to place the connector on the schematic, as shown in the image above. Save your schematic locally. Editing in the Properties Panel One of the powerful features of the Properties panel is that it supports editing multiple selected objects at the same time.

If all objects share a property, that property will be available for editing. If all objects share the same property value, that value will be displayed. The value entered or option chosen is applied to all selected objects. Component Positioning Tips To reposition any object, place the cursor directly over the object, click and hold the left mouse button, drag the object to a new position then release the mouse button.

Movement is constrained to the current snap grid, which is displayed on the Status Bar. Press the G shortcut at any time to cycle through the current snap grid settings. Remember that it is important to position components on a coarse grid, such as 50 or mil. Once a component has been placed on the schematic, the software will attempt to maintain connectivity keep the wires attached if the component is moved.

This connective-aware movement is referred to as dragging. To move the component without maintaining connectivity, hold Ctrl as you click and drag the component. To switch the default behavior from dragging to moving, disable the Always Drag option in the Schematic — Graphical Editing page of the Preferences dialog. You can also re-position a group of selected schematic objects using the arrow keys on the keyboard.

Select the objects then press an arrow key while holding down the Ctrl key. Hold Shift as well to move objects by 10 times the current snap grid. The grid can also be temporarily set to the minimum 10mil value while moving an object with the mouse; hold Ctrl to do this. Use this feature when positioning text. The grids you cycle through when you press the G shortcut are defined in the Schematic — Grids page of the Preferences dialog Tools » Preferences.

The Units controls on the Schematic — General page of the Preferences dialog are used to select the measurement units; select either Mils or Millimeters. Note that Altium Designer components are designed using an imperial grid; if you change to a metric grid, the component pins will no longer fall onto a standard grid. Because of this, it is recommended to use Mils for Units unless you plan on only using your own components.

The Active Bar The tools most commonly used in each editor are available on the Active Bar , which is displayed at the top of the editing window. Wiring the schematic. To make sure you have a good view of the schematic sheet, press the PgUp key to zoom in or PgDn to zoom out. First, wire the lower pin of resistor R1 to the base of transistor Q1 in the following manner.

The cursor will change to a crosshair. Position the cursor over the bottom end of R1. When you are in the right position, a red connection marker red cross will appear at the cursor location. This indicates that the cursor is over a valid electrical connection point on the component.

Left-click or press Enter to anchor the first wire point. Move the cursor and you will see a wire extend from the cursor position back to the anchor point. Position the cursor over the base of Q1 until you see the cursor change to a red connection marker.

If the wire is forming a corner in the wrong direction, press Spacebar to toggle the corner direction.

Click or press Enter to connect the wire to the base of Q1. The cursor will release from that wire. Note that the cursor remains a crosshair indicating that you are ready to place another wire. To exit placement mode completely and go back to the arrow cursor, you would right-click or press Esc again — but don’t do this just now.

Next, wire from the lower pin of R3 to the collector of Q1. Position the cursor over the lower pin of R3 and click or press Enter to start a new wire. Move the cursor vertically until it is over the collector of Q1 then click or press Enter to place the wire segment. Again, the cursor will release from that wire and you remain in wiring mode, ready to place another wire.

Wire up the rest of your circuit, as shown in the animation above. When you have finished placing all the wires, right-click or press Esc to exit placement mode. The cursor will revert to an arrow. Left-click or press Enter to anchor the wire at the cursor position. Press Backspace to remove the last anchor point. Press Spacebar to toggle the direction of the corner. You can observe this in the animation shown above toward the end when the connector is being wired.

Available modes include: 90, 45, Any Angle, and Autowire place orthogonal wire segments between the click points. Right-click or press Esc to exit wire placement mode. Whenever a wire crosses the connection point of a component or is terminated on another wire, a junction will automatically be created.

A wire that crosses the end of a pin will connect to that pin even if you delete the junction. Check that your wired circuit looks like the figure shown before proceeding. Wiring cross-overs can be displayed as a small arch if preferred. Adding net labels. A net label will appear floating on the cursor. To edit the net label before it is placed, press Tab to open the Properties panel. Type 12V in the Net Name field, then click the Pause button to return to object placement.

After placing the first net label, you will still be in net label placement mode; press the Tab key again to edit the second net label in the Properties panel before placing it.

Place the net label so that the bottom left of the net label touches the lower-most wire on the schematic as shown in the completed schematic image above. Right-click or press Esc to exit net label placement mode. Save your circuit and the project locally — right-click each file in the Projects panel and select Save. Net Labels, Ports, and Power Ports As well as giving a net a name, Net Labels are also used to create connectivity between two separate points on the same schematic sheet.

Ports are used to create connectivity between two separate points on different sheets. Off Sheet Connectors can also be used to do this. Power Ports are used to create connectivity between points on all sheets; for this single sheet design, Net Labels or Power Ports could have been used. You have just completed your first schematic capture.

Before you turn the schematic into a circuit board, you need to configure the project options and check the design for errors. Dynamic Compilation The Unified Data Model UDM is available from the moment a project is opened and should not require additional compilation, which saves time with increased speed of compilation and persistent listings of nets and components in the Navigator panel.

Configuring the Error Checking. Scroll through the list of error checks and note that they are clustered in groups; each group can be collapsed if required.

Click on the Report Mode setting for any error check and note the options available. Changing the Connection Matrix. To change one of the settings, click the colored box; it will cycle through the four possible settings.

Note that you can right-click on the dialog face to display a menu that lets you toggle all settings simultaneously, including an option to restore them all to their Default state handy if you have been toggling settings and cannot remember their default state. Your circuit contains only passive pins. Let’s change the default settings so that the connection matrix detects unconnected passive pins. Look down the row labels to find the Passive Pin row. Look across the column labels to find Unconnected.

The square where these entries intersect indicates the error condition when a passive pin is found to be unconnected in the schematic.

The default setting is green indicating that no report will be generated. Click on this intersection box until it turns orange as shown in the image above so that an error will be generated for unconnected passive pins when the project is compiled. You will purposely create an instance of this error later in the tutorial. Configuring Class Generation. Clear the Component Classes checkbox as shown in the image above.

This will automatically disable the creation of a placement room for that schematic sheet. There are no buses in the design so there is no need to clear the Generate Net Classes for Buses checkbox located near the top of the dialog. There are no user-defined Net Classes in the design done through the placement of Net Class directives on the wires so there is no need to clear the Generate Net Classes checkbox in the User-Defined Classes region of the dialog.

Configuring Comparator Settings. Checking the project for errors. When the validation is complete, all warnings and errors are displayed in the Messages panel. The panel will only open automatically if there are errors detected not when there are only warnings. To open it manually, click the button at the bottom right and select Messages from the menu.

If your circuit is drawn correctly, the Messages panel should not contain any errors, only the message Compile successful, no errors found. If there are errors, work through each one, checking your circuit, and ensuring that all wiring and connections are correct. You will now deliberately introduce an error into the circuit and validate the project again: Click on the Multivibrator.

SchDoc tab at the top of the design space to make the schematic sheet the active document. Small, square editing handles will appear at each end of the wire and the selected color will display as a dotted line along the wire to indicate that it is selected. Press the Delete key on the keyboard to delete the wire.

PrjPcb to check for errors. The Messages panel will display error messages indicating you have unconnected pins in your circuit. The Messages panel is divided horizontally into two regions as shown in the image above.

The upper region lists all messages, which can be saved, copied, cross probed to, or cleared via the right-click menu. When you double-click on an error or warning in either region of the Messages panel, the schematic view will pan and zoom to the object in error. When you hover the cursor over the object in error not the wiggly line , a message describing the error condition will appear. Before you finish this section of the tutorial, let’s fix the error in our schematic. Make the schematic sheet the active document.

The process of compiling is integral to producing a valid netlist for a project. In fact it is the process of compilation that yields the unified data model of a design – the single model of the data that is accessible across the design domains in Altium Designer’s unified design environment.

Connectivity awareness in your schematic diagram can be verified during compilation according to rules defined as part of the options for the design project – on the Error Reporting and Connection Matrix tabs respectively. This area of the Altium Designer documentation provides a comprehensive reference describing each of the possible electrical and drafting violations that can exist in source documents when compiling a project. By entering queries into this engine you can logically scope precisely those objects you require.

A query is a string you enter using specific keywords and syntax, which will return the targeted objects. Queries are primarily defined in a Filter panel, but are also used to define scoping for PCB design rules.

As you build your knowledge of the Query Language, and the functions, keywords and syntax available, you will be able to type expressions directly. However, until that level of confidence is built, the Query Helper can be a beneficial crutch on which to lean! The vastness of the Query Language may seem a little daunting to begin with, but over time you will learn to appreciate its power – building a set of favorite query expressions with which to target common sets of objects and committing them to muscle memory.

And to quickly get up to speed, information is available for each of the query functions. Simply highlight or click inside any given keyword – in the Query Helper , a Filter panel, or the Full Query field of a PCB design rule – and press F1 to access its page within the documentation.

Altium Designer’s unified design environment consists of various Servers plugged into a core platform. Together with the core platform itself, these servers provide the resources of the software – its features and functionality.

The resources are delivered in the form of commands, dialogs, panels, and the like. They are documented across the following sections of this documentation space:. Altium Designer Documentation. Using Altium Documentation. Now reading version For the latest, read: Altium Designer Documentation for version The Altium Designer documentation is versioned. You can switch to a particular version’s documentation set manually, directly through your web browser, or you can sit back and access the correct version automatically, from within Altium Designer.

F1 mapping functionality, and other documentation links, are instilled with the smarts necessary to arrive at the correct documentation destination, for the version of the software you are actively designing with. Read about Installing Altium Designer. Read about Getting Altium Designer Licensed.

Choose your Topic Connecting to Altium Working with Projects. Inviting Users to Collaborate. Making Projects Available Online. Commenting in Your Design. Working Offline. Project History. Interaction with Projects. Schematic Grids and Preferences. Schematic Components Placement. Manufacturer Part Search. Wiring The Schematic. Using Power Ports. Using Net Labels.

Schematic Annotation. Schematic Port Placement. Searching for Errors. Resolving Schematic Errors.

 
 

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