Altium Designer 16 - Basics (Arduino FIO)

Create a crystal schematic symbol and its library in Altium Designer, detailing symbol design, pins, and parameters like part numbers, while planning for a future pcb footprint.

Create a 2D PCB footprint for a crystal in Altium Designer 16 by defining pins 1 and 2, placing pads to datasheet dimensions, and adding silk screen.

Learn how to create and customize a 3D PCB footprint in Altium Designer, including placing 3D bodies, importing step models, and aligning orientation for accurate footprint placement.

Associate the schematic symbol with the crystal footprint by adding a footprint from the library, adjusting the pin map, and validating with 2d/3d previews.

Create a complex ATmega symbol with 32 pins using the symbol wizard, then generate an IPC compliant footprint with the footprint wizard, including 3D model preview and proper pin names.

Access the Altium Content Vault via the XP Vault Explorer to browse PCV footprints and schematic symbols, preview the footprint, view the data sheet, and download components to your library.

Learn how to populate an Altium schematic with components and drawings, manage libraries, place and rotate parts, edit component properties, and prepare schematic annotation placeholders for designators.

Enhance design efficiency in Altium Designer 16 by customizing keyboard shortcuts and menus, enabling one-handed access, editing commands with control-click, and dragging tools into toolbars and view menus.

Learn physical wiring in altium designer: place components, wire pins with 90 and 45 degree angles, set up power ports; use control-drag to preserve connections and manage crossovers in schematics.

Learn how to create logical connections with net labels in Altium Designer 16 basics, annotate schematics, manage unique designators, handle duplicate designators, and compile changes for project completion.

Perform a project recompile in Altium Designer 16, catch errors and warnings, fix duplicate part designators, and validate footprints before pushing to pcv documents.

Explore how to navigate between 2d pcb schematic style and 3d views, manage layers visibility (signal, mechanical, silkscreen), create custom layer sets, adjust colors, and control 3d orientation.

Learn to define a PCB board shape in Altium Designer 16 by drawing primitives (lines, rectangles, circles), converting to a defined shape, and creating perimeters and cutouts with origin setup.

Learn how to transfer a schematic to PCB, import changes, manage rooms, and use alignment tools for placing and distributing components, with cross-select, rotation, and designator visibility.

Master interactive routing and footprint-based design rules by creating a targeted clearance rule for a footprint, resolving 9.843 mil gaps that violate the 10 mil minimum in Altium Designer 16.

Learn interactive routing in Altium Designer, using lookahead, backspace edits, and automatic routing with tab, while managing obstacles with push and walk-around modes and multi-routing.

Use the polygon manager to pour solid or hatch polygons, connect to ground, remove islands, and report changes; adjust connect style with design rules and create polygons for both layers.

Learn to run online and batch design rule checks in Altium Designer 16, configure clearance and routing rules, review violations, and position 3D bodies to resolve conflicts.

Explore PCB global editing, using filters, PCB inspector, and PCB list to select multiple components, adjust properties, and manage layers and building materials.

Learn to edit and update a PCB footprint by modifying the PCB library, placing text strings on mechanical layers, and applying tool-based updates to the PCB document.

Learn to attach supplier links to components in the schematic library, generate a detailed bill of materials with unit prices and parameters, and export BOMs to Excel, PDF, or CSV.

Export fabrication outputs in Altium Designer to generate Gerber and NC drill files, select layers, include mechanical outlines, and package a single file for fabrication houses.

Generate all project outputs with a single click, producing schematic and PCB prints, BOM, fabrication files (Gerber, drill, ODP++), and 3d step models, with design rule and electrical checks.