Moving the design through to manufacture

• Explore the electronic product development environment
• Design to manufacture
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The smooth transition from design to manufacture plays a crucial role in the success of an electronic product. Delays in component procurement and miscommunication with manufacturers can lead to delays and cost overruns. Your product can be late to market, or miss the boat altogether. Altium Designer helps bridge the gap between design and manufacture, and allows you to actively manage the generation and verification of all manufacturing data.

By providing a single design environment for managing design data, Altium Designer saves time and minimizes costly design errors during the flow from design to manufacture. You can work efficiently with your manufacturing partners to ensure your manufacturing files are fault-free and completely ready for efficient fabrication and assembly.

Altium Designer provides complete manufacturing file verification and editing in a unified design environment, allowing you to load and inspect all manufacturing data generated by the system.

To manage output documents Altium Designer includes a specialized output job document (OutJob) that can be added to a project to centralize output generation.

Altium Designer provides a wide choice of outputs to allow you to generate appropriate files for any manufacturing requirements.

Altium Designer allows you to completely configure the information and format of Bills of Materials (BOM), and generate BOM listings in a variety of formats.

With Altium Designer you can precisely define the mix of PCB layers you want to print, set the scaling and orientation, and see exactly how it will look on the page before you print it.

Altium Designer offers extensive interface support for a wide range of mechanical CAD tools.