This course shows how use Altium to generate PCB designs, including PCB schematics and layouts. Instructor Justin Flett helps you find your way around the Altium interface and use all of the built-in tools, including the millions of components and symbols that come with Altium libraries, to build a PCB project from the ground up. Login with your Altium Live account If you need to register go ahead, ideally allow cookies in your browser so that you don't need to register each visit. Browse the available libraries and download to your local drive.
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New Product Overview: Altium Concord Pro
Altium Concord Pro is a complete system for component management that integrates into your workflow to minimize those risks and manual efforts.
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Advanced PCB Library Management
Take a look at our second in a series of articles on PCB library management with Altium Designer.
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Effective Integrated PCB Library Management with Altium Designer
From designs to documentation, PCB library management is much easier when you use the right design software from Altium Designer.
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Am I Big Enough for Data Management?
If we have only one or two EEs, do we really need data management?
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Using Library Search Features for Easier Component Selection
The component selection and management tools in Altium Designer help keep you productive.
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New Components Panel
Rapidly locate the perfect component in all of your libraries with advanced search and parameter filters.
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Creating Library Parts and Attaching 3D Models Enables Clearer Designs
See how a unified design environment solves your ECAD/MCAD integration problems and helps you manage your component models.
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Digital Library Management for Circuit Boards: More Than a Few Shelves
Digital library management in a unified environment makes it easy to manage components, obtain supplier information, and update your designs.
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What Is a Gerber File in the PCB Fabrication Process?
Let's look at what a Gerber file is, and how is it used to send your design image data to your manufacturer for the PCB fabrication process.
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The Best Static Analysis Tool For Developing Autonomous Vehicle Software
Designers often focus on benchmarking their compiler when developing Autonomous Vehicle Software.
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Choosing the Best Communication Configuration for Your IoT Device Network
It’s all set, you have perfected the design of the latest state-of-the-art IoT fork and you’re feeling unstoppable.
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Don't Write Your Own Libraries for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Applications
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SpaceX to Launch Modular Falcon Rocket with Reused Engines
Modular, reusable design is a design methodology that demands serious consideration. SpaceX have put the associated advantages to work with their Falcon family of spacecraft.
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Why You Should Include Mechanical Parts in Your Bill of Materials Template
Mechanical parts can sometimes get forgotten from a PCB BOM. Here are some reasons why this can happen and some tips on how to avoid that problem.
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The Wheel Keeps Turning: Advanced Bill of Materials for PCB Design
Don’t let your desire for comfort impede your ability to get work done efficiently and effectively, make sure to stay up-to-date with innovations in BOM software.
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How to Use Libraries in Altium Designer 19
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What's in a Name - Component Development Part 2
In this blog I outline how Altium Content Team names components, symbols and footprints. Why we’ve chosen these naming conventions.This seems like an eminently boring place to start, but something...
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Component Development best practices - Part 1
During the coming weeks, we’d like to post details about our library development standards, practices and processes. Along the way, I’d like open discussion about how you develop libraries, and...
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Add Any Component to Your Design With Unified Component Libraries
Stuck with in-house part libraries? Altium’s Unified Component Libraries make part possibilities endless and keeps you in your designs longer.
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BOM Part Number Management: Why It Should Be Automated
One mislabeled part number can lead to a slew of negative repercussions.
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Can you share one line of the spreadsheet with the headings? (CSV will do)
I'm trying to set it up and I can't get it to work. It's driving me crazy!
If you could share your workflow, that would also be great.
Altium don't provide much in the way of support for doing this.
EDIT: I can create an Excel file, connect to it and create a dblib, but I can't place parts from it. I'm obviously missing some columns in my spreadsheet or I've got something wrong. Not sure what.
UPDATE: Thanks for the feedback. Problem is solved now.
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