Interactive Webinars
The Future with Altium Designer

Detailed agenda

  • File System (Structured vs. Database)
    • Project Files
    • File View, Structure Editor
  • Import OrCAD and other files
  • Panels
    • General Behaviour (Docking, Splitting, Stacking)
    • Default, Save, Restore
  • Import 99SE and other files
  • Editors
    • Familiar look and feel to 99SE
    • Standard hotkeys, consistency between SCH & PCB
    • Right Hand Pan
    • Removal of the "Focus" to ease selection
  • Navigator Panel
    • Pins, Components, Nets
    • Connectivity Check - Show Graph
    • Mask, Select, Zoom
  • Global Editing
    • Find Similar Objects
    • List Panel
    • Ex: Change Designator Font and/or Size
  • Library & Component Properties
    • Library Installation, Availability (79,000+ parts)
    • Library Search
    • Footprint Availability
    • Other Models Possible
    • Pin Mapping (prevents node not found)
    • Integrated vs. PCB or SCH only
    • Parameters (unlimited, easy to alter)
    • Library Reports
    • Reference document links
  • Schematic Editing
    • Placing Components
    • Wiring and Editing
    • Cross Junctions
    • Online ERC
  • Parameter Manager
    • General Usage & Editing
    • Use with Database Linking
  • Bill of Materials
  • Hierarchical Schematic Improvements/Synchronization
  • Print Preview in Schematic
    • Options
    • Ability to Copy to Clipboard in PCB & SCH for documentation
  • Documentation Features in Schematic
    • Drawing Tools
    • Notes
  • Synchronization Procedures SCH to PCB
    • Updates
    • ECO process
    • Cross Probing
    • Cross Select Modes
  • PCB Board Shape & Document
  • Design Rules (exclusory rules)
  • Split Plane Behaviour
  • Editor Hot Key Improvements
  • General Navigation (change masking when routing)
  • AutoRouter (if desired)
  • CAMtastic
    • Automatic Import
    • Integrated Editor
  • Session Ends - General Questions and Answers