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Add Unit-Aware Temperature Coefficient Parameters

Component templates in a connected Workspace on the Altium Platform now include support for Temperature Coefficient (ppm/°C) as a unit-aware user parameter type. This makes it possible to define temperature coefficient values directly within the template using the appropriate units.

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When to Add Part Numbers to SMD Passives

Check out our new video covering essential electronics fundamentals, with a focus on why including part numbers for SMD passive components, such as SMD resistors, directly on schematics is so important. We also explore whether relying only on the Bill of Materials (BOM) is enough for effective electronic component management.

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Complex Engineering Projects Leverage Multiple ECAD/MCAD Formats

This article explores how modern engineering teams manage complex projects involving multiple ECAD, MCAD, and manufacturing file formats across distributed workflows. It highlights the importance of design authority, disciplined revision control, and bidirectional collaboration to ensure accurate integration between PCBs and mechanical systems.

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Present Large Harness Tables More Clearly

Harness Draftsman now supports splitting connection tables across multiple pages in *.HarDwf documents. With the new page height limit setting, you can easily control how much of the table appears on each page.

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Innovate Beyond - The Future of Electronics Development in Automotive

Discover how the future of automotive electronics is being shaped by a more connected development approach that unifies teams, data, requirements, design, collaboration, and manufacturing. Recorded at BMW Welt and the BMW Museum during Altium’s "The Future of Electronics Development in Automotive" event, this video explores the key challenges and innovations driving the next generation of automotive design.

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BOM Cost Optimization During Schematic Capture

Engineering and sourcing teams work best when BOM decisions happen with live market data in view. This article explains how integrated cost and availability insights help teams collaborate earlier and avoid redesigns driven by supply chain issues.

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Coming Soon: Design Rule Sets

Soon, PCB design rules in Altium will be organized into reusable Rule Sets within the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor. These rule sets can be created, duplicated, enabled or disabled, renamed, deleted, imported, and exported, making it easier to manage rules for specific interfaces, manufacturing requirements, or unique design constraints.

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Decoupling Capacitor Routing: When to Use Vias vs Traces

Check out this video, a follow-up to the decoupling capacitor placement series, exploring the inductance tradeoffs between trace routing and via connections. Using real component examples from an Ethernet switch design in Altium, the video demonstrates how different routing choices can impact overall performance.

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Coming Soon: Interactive Dynamic Phase Tuning

The Interactive Length Tuning tool allows you to manually tune a single net in a differential pair while maintaining equal pair length and phase alignment across the entire route. This enables more efficient differential signal transmission, greater control during manual tuning, and faster pattern creation within defined phase tolerance limits.

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How to Use a Multicad Viewer for Seamless Collaboration

Because ECAD formats are typically incompatible, teams often struggle with versioning, conversions, and fragmented review processes. This article breaks down how multi-CAD viewers provide a unified, read-only environment that supports structured design reviews, comments, and task assignment across disciplines.

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AI PCB Layout vs. Human Design: The Honest Truth

The question is: Can AI really route a PCB as well as an experienced human designer? In this video, we set out to find the answer. Our expert, Zach Peterson, puts it to the test in a side-by-side layout review. The challenge is based on a LinkedIn post where viewers had to guess which board was AI-generated and which was designed by a human.

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Improve Your 3D Wire Bonding Workflow

Check out the video where we showcase enhanced wire bonding features, including precise bond wire shape definition, improved clearance checking, streamlined import and export workflows, and efficient management of wire bonding objects.

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Rigid-Flex PCBs in Consumer Electronics

Rigid-flex PCBs help modern devices get smaller, lighter, and more compact by eliminating connectors and fitting into tight 3D spaces. This article explains how to design them properly to avoid common reliability issues.

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From Design to First Assembly: Complete Your BOM & Plan Your Build

This webinar walks through the complete post-release workflow, from generating a managed BOM to sourcing components and assembling the first prototype. It demonstrates how integrated tools streamline data enrichment, supplier selection, and guided assembly to reduce delays and errors.

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The Future of BOM Management: Trends and Innovations

BOM management is no longer just a checklist. It’s becoming a real-time engine for smarter decisions! Discover how AI, automation, and connected systems are transforming BOMs into powerful tools for navigating supply chain uncertainty.

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Blog 5月 5, 2020
Helpful Tips for Interactive Routing in Altium Designer

Before you jump into the software, you should know the types of things you’re going to want to look out for. Traces, connection lines, differential pair routing, and route paths can all affect the routing process of your board. Make sure that you’re equipped knowing, ultimately, what you want your board design to accomplish and furthermore, where you anticipate potential problem areas to be.

Blog 4月 22, 2020
Any Angle Routing: When Should You Use It?

EDA tools have come a long way since the advent of personal computing. Now advanced routing features like auto-routers, interactive routing, length tuning, and pin-swapping are helping designers stay productive, especially as device and trace densities increase. Read full article in our blog:

Blog 3月 20, 2020
A Message from Altium on COVID-19

We understand that many of you, like ourselves, have transitioned to working remotely. This process comes with its challenges and we would like to offer all and any help we can to minimize disruptions for your teams and business.

Blog 3月 2, 2020
About Altium Designer Home Page

With the new Altium Designer Home page, we are aiming to help users stay up to date with the latest features and productivity tricks available in Altium Designer. Learn more about the Home page in this documentation article.

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Blog 2月 25, 2020
Getting Connected: Altium’s User Community Forums

The Altium design environment is a complex and sophisticated set of software tools. Not surprisingly, becoming proficient with these tools will take some time, and you’ll need to practice every step of the design process from beginning to end. So what happens if you get stuck along the way?

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Configuring Autorecognition

Before using the Power Analyzer by Keysight, it is important to configure certain parameters. In this video, we will demonstrate how to properly set up the software for auto-recognition.

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Adding Power Nets for Simulation

One of the most important things when designing your PCB is to check and measure the quality of electrical power for your project. Power Analyzer by Keysight offers you the ability to simulate how power is distributed on your PCB. In this video, we will show you how to prepare power nets for simulation in Altium Designer.

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How to Use Transmission Lines in RF Design

High frequency signals are carried on circuit boards via transmission lines. Learn the differences between standard 50 ohm impedance microstrip lines and coplanar transmission lines in this video. We also explore the best-use cases for coplanar transmission lines, how they impact loss and interference, dielectric thicknesses, and more.

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How to Reverse Engineer a PCB from Gerber Files

Have you ever done a reverse-engineering? In this video we walk you through the process how to prepare a PCB from Gerber files, using a variety of methods, including via CAMtastic in Altium Designer.

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How to Use Power Regulator Circuits in Series and Parallel

In this tutorial video we show you two ways to get more power out of your power supply using power regulator circuits in series and in parallel.

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Measuring in the PCB

Altium Designer gives you fine grained control over how you measure object distances in the PCB. When spacing is such a critical aspect of board layout, this control is absolutely necessary. We'll show you how to utilize the measure distance command and measure selected objects, as well as how to measure tracks and faces of 3D bodies.

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Polygon: Polygon Creation

Learn how to create polygon pours to ensure proper copper distribution on your board.

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How to work with cursors in the simulation results?

Cursors are one of the most indispensable tools for modeling results. They do not require long study, are easy to use and give an instant answer to the main questions.

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3D view control

Learn how to use the 3D display mode of the PCB and learn to control the camera in this mode in this video.

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Query Language: How to Easily Create Expressions

In this video the main tools which allow to simplify the process of building a query in Altium Designer will be considered. There are several such tools and each of them has its own limitations and peculiarities of use.

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PCB Classes overview

Are there too many primitives on the board? Having trouble creating design rules? This video gives a brief overview of the classes of primitives that can be created on the board, as well as the possibilities for their further use.

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Creating a BGA Footprint with the Footprint Wizard

Altium Designer makes it easy to create a BGA footprint using our IPC compliant footprint wizard. We'll show you how easily you can create and modify a BGA footprint using the footprint wizard.

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How to work with Pad Classes on PCB?

Sometimes it is required to set different design rules for a different set of pads on the board. The easiest way is to use pad classes and in this video we'll show you how easy it is to create and apply them.

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How to work with multivariate calculations?

Additional modes for obtaining temperature, parametric dependencies and probabilistic distribution by the Monte Carlo method are performed together with basic calculations and allow expanding the possibilities for analyzing design results.

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How to calculate Transient Analysis?

Transient Analysis simulates the reaction of a circuit over a period of time. It can be supplemented by Fourier Analysis and the use of Initial Conditions.

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BOM Comments

Convenient interaction and coordination of the Active BOM with the help of comments is possible both from the web version of the project and from the Altium Designer between participants of the same and different roles.

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