TrainingAltium Designer Essentials

Altium Designer Essentials
with Altium 365 Course

Master the fundamentals and start
designing PCBs

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Altium Designer Essentials with Altium 365

Learn how to navigate Altium Designer with ease

Altium Designer Essentials with Altium 365 will help you quickly learn the basics of this powerful PCB design tool. You'll get step-by-step instructions and shortcuts that will save you time and help you produce high-quality designs every time.

Instructor-led and Private Trainings for Essentials with Altium 365 are interactive courses with instructions and projects presented in a designated Altium 365 workspace.

  • Create high-quality PCB designs in less time
  • Learn powerful best practices to help you save time and reduce costly errors
  • Access, create and update projects and documents in Altium 365 Workspace
  • Earn a certificate to showcase your skills to potential employers

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Is the Essentials Course Right for You?

If you are new to PCB design or an experienced designer getting familiar with Altium Designer, this course is for you.

The Essentials course provides instructions on the entire design capture process, starting with the User Interface, Project Creation, and Schematic Entry, then moving toward PCB Layout, Documentation, and Fabrication Outputs. This course teaches the core functionality of Altium Designer and ensures a uniform learning experience, regardless of whether you are utilizing features within Altium 365 or operating solely within your local environment.

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Certification: Altium Designer Essentials with Altium 365 Course Certification

Duration:

Instructor-Led Online Format: Essentials with Altium 365

  • 3 day course (Typical class hours are 9 am - 5 pm)
  • Interactive sessions are taught in a designated Altium 365 workspace
  • Groups sizes of 12 allow individual support and instruction during hands-on application exercises.

On-Demand Format:

  • On-Demand courses are self-paced. They include over 6 hours of in-depth video instructions covering schematic on Altium Designer features and shortcuts.

Software
Altium Designer
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Altium Designer Essentials with Altium 365 – Shows the complete project flow from Design Capture to final PCB Design and final Design Release. In addition, the course includes training on how to create a component in Altium 365. Other topics include multi-sheet design, classes, global editing, and polygons.

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How Do You Prefer to Learn?

Instructor Led - Online - Essentials with Altium 365

Our 3 day online courses are led by expert instructors who deliver hands-on training sessions. Altium 365 access is not required to take this course. Up to 12 attendees can join on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Work training into your personal schedule. Our On-Demand Courses offer comprehensive video instructions, along with exercise instructions and a reference PDF with links to the online documentation on Altium.

Private Training - Essentials or Essentials with Altium 365

Private Training - Essentials or Essentials with Altium 365 Private training is perfect for groups or design teams and offers the confidentiality of any designs and discussions covered during sessions. Private training is available to be delivered onsite or via online instruction.

Course Agenda - Essentials with Altium 365 Instructor-Led

Altium Professional Training is critical to maximizing the software's functionality and efficiency in your daily work. With Altium Designer Essentials with Altium 365 Course training you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of PCB Design and navigate Altium Designer confidently. This course uses a specific Altium 365 workspace during the training. All attendees will receive an invitation to connect to the workspace before the start of the training. An internet connection and access to AltiumLive are essential during the training.

Customers not able to use Altium 365 functionality will have the option of working with training exercises from their offline environment (laptop or PC).

As part of the learning experience, the course includes downloadable instructional documents for practical hands-on exercises.

Getting Started - Altium 365 Environment
Hours of Training: 2 Hours
The new course uses a specific Altium 365 workspace during the training. All attendees will receive an invitation to connect to the workspace before the start of the training. An internet connection and access to AltiumLive are essential during the training. Customers unable to use Altium 365 functionality will have the option of working with training exercises from their offline environment (laptop or PC).
Schematic Capture
Hours of Training: 7 Hours
The schematic design process captures the design intent, this includes all elements for the design to work, including component placement as well as electrical connectivity. This module covers fundamental practices to enhance efficiency and readability in schematic sheets. Main topics covered: - Optimized component placement utilizing Altium 365 libraries - Creating connectivity - Configuring schematic grids and cursor types - Handling of graphic and electrical objects - Component annotation - Global editing capabilities - Electrical Rules - Design Verification - Creating hierarchical designs - Managing multi-sheet designs - Transfer of design rules from the schematic to the PCB
PCB
Hours of Training: 7 Hours
The modern PCB is a dense, multi-layered engineering design challenge. Altium Designer is constantly introducing new capabilities to help streamline your PCB design process. Main topics covered: - Step-by-step walkthrough of the PCB User Interface and Preferences - PCB navigation guidance - Understanding Component Classes and Net Classes - Layer Stack management techniques - Defining the board shape - Custom grids setup - Design rules and constraints overview - Component placement strategies - Design Reuse utilizing Altium 365 - Routing techniques - Global editing capabilities - Planes/polygons configuration - Resolving design violations
Documentation
Hours of Training: 2 Hours
The final phase of the board design cycle is to generate the output files needed to fabricate, assemble, and test the printed circuit board. To do this, you need to generate a variety of output files in various formats. Main topics covered: - Generating multiple fabrication and assembly outputs - Creating Bill of Material (BOM) - Utilization of Output Job files for streamlined output generation - Project release to the Altium 365 Workspace for collaborative work - Project design review facilitated by Altium 365 Commenting and Task features
Documentation
Hours of Training: 1
The final phase of the board design cycle is to generate the output files needed to fabricate, assemble and test the printed circuit board. To do this, you need to generate a variety of output files in a various of formats. This module will teach you how to generate multiple fabrication and assembly outputs as well as Bill of Material (BOM), through the use of Output Job files.

Your Altium Designer Essentials with Altium 365 Course Includes

Internationally Recognized Course Certificate

Altium Designer Essentials Course Certificate is recognized around the world. PCB designers with Altium training are in high demand.

Free Altium Designer access

Don't have access to Altium Designer? No problem! The Essentials course comes with a complimentary Free Trial, so you can practice your new skills.

Meet Your Instructors

Learn from the best in the industry. Altium instructors are expert engineers with years of
PCB experience. They are up-to-date on the latest technology and features available with
Altium Designer. Their insights and real time feedback during the course is invaluable.

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Training Satisfaction
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Ease of Setup
8.4
Ease of Use

Altium Training Delivers over 94% Satisfaction to Students

According to G2, Altium offers the easiest to use PCB Design Software in the industry!

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Careers in PCB Design are Growing! According to 2021 survey results published in Printed Circuit Design & Fab (PCD&F) magazine, nearly 78% of the electronic design workforce is projected to retire in the next 15 years

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