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Moving to Altium Designer from P-CAD

Advancements in technology are forcing the convergence of traditionally separate design disciplines. Your design systems must support this convergence to allow you to remain competitive and tackle the future head on.

Altium Designer provides all electronic designers and engineers with a single, unified application that incorporates all the technologies and capabilities necessary for complete electronic product development. Altium Designer brings together hardware, software and programmable hardware development within a unified environment that allows all aspects of an electronic product to be designed and managed within a single system.

Read Why move from P-CAD to Altium Designer? for a list of compelling reasons to switch to Altium Designer today.

Read the Moving from P-CAD to Altium Designer Learning Guide for the basics on using Altium Designer and the key differences you need to be aware of when moving from P-CAD.

Moving to Altium Designer is the best path forward for P-CAD users. The Envision article on Seamless transition from P-CAD shows how Altium is committed to providing you with a smooth, seamless transition to the future of electronics design.

But don't just read about it, see for yourself how Altium Designer puts the future on your desktop and equips you to tackle today’s – and tomorrow’s – changing electronic product development challenges. View our two-minute introductory video and then spend some time exploring the online demos below, which provide an in-depth look at Altium Designer and its main design capabilities.


Introduction

Finding your way around

Tuning the environment

Managing projects and documents

Schematic capture and migrating

PCB layout and migration

Library migration and setup

Routing

Flexible and integrated design rules

Managing design changes

Design documentation

Selecting and editing objects

Live web demonstrations

Our application engineers regularly conduct live web demonstrations in most major regions around the world. For information on upcoming web conferences and to register your place, visit the Web Conference pages.

More on Altium Designer

To view more on-demand videos showing some of the features in Altium Designer 6 go to the Altium Designer 6 DEMOcenter.

Altium Designer demonstration video requirements:
- Macromedia Flash player 7 or greater
- Headphones or speakers
- Min. resolution 1024x768
- Broadband connection