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
Advance your design skills by learning from Altium experts!
Training Starts at
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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Pre-Requisites: None
Certification: Altium Designer Essentials with Altium 365 Course Certification
License Requirements: Training courses are based on advanced features and require a Professional or Enterprise license. A Professional license can be provided during the training course if needed.
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
Free Trial Available
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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On Demand
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 HoursThe 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 HoursThe 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 HoursThe 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 HoursThe 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: 1The 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.
Michael Heil
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- Degrees / Certifications: Dipl. Ingenieur (FH) / CID
- Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials, Altium Designer Advanced, Concord-pro, Altium 365, (Spice)
- Personal Interest / Quotes:
- Languages: German, Englisch
- Location: EMEA
Kristen Aguiar
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- Degrees / Certifications: B.S. Mathematics
IPC Certified Interconnect Designer- Advanced (CID+) - Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials
- Personal Interest / Quotes: Traveling, Hiking, Cycling, History, Cooking
- Languages: English
- Location: North America (US)
Tally Kainth
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- Degrees / Certifications: HND Electronic Engineering
- Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials, Altium Designer Advanced, Concord-pro, Altium 365
- Personal Interest / Quotes: When I train, I do it with my Designers-hat on, through experience as a PCB Design Engineer with industry experience, I instinctively know what my trainees are looking for when on my training courses.
- Languages: English (Three South Asian Lanuages)
- Location: EMEA
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- Degrees / Certifications: "Multiple Engineering, EE, ME, CS
Maine Technology Institute, Instructor 3D Systems - SLA / SLS Technology Certificate & Maintenance STI Electronics for IPC610, IPC-A-600 and J-STD-001 Have over 8 Patents in Power Electronics and LED Lighting and IoT Technology." - Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: At two Corporations not as an Altium Instructor.....Altium Designer - Spice - Librarian - Vault - Concord Pro Admin - PDN - Spice. Rapid Mfg Technology in SLS and SLA technologies. Corporate trainer in Solid Works and Solid Edge
- Personal Interest / Quotes: Harley Davidson Motorcycle Enthusiast and long distance Touring
- Languages: English
- Location: North America (US)
Tomas Chester
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- Degrees / Certifications: Professional Engineer (P.Eng)
Printed Circuit Engineering Professional Instructor (CPCD) - Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Speciality: High Speed Digital Design
Courses Taught: Altium Essentials, Altium Advanced, Printed Circuit Engineering Professional - Personal Interest / Quotes:
- Languages: English
- Location: North America (Canada, Ontario)
Barry Berends
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- Degrees / Certifications: Bachelor's degree Elektronics (Teacher second degree)
- Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials, Altium Designer Advanced, Altium Spice, Altium SI, Concord Pro, Altium 365, Altium NEXUS
- Personal Interest / Quotes:
- Languages: English, Dutch
- Location: EMEA
Michael Moser
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- Degrees / Certifications: Diplom Ingenieur Nachrichtentechnik
Erwachsenenpädagogische Grundqualifizierung, University Mainz - Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials, Altium Designer Advanced
- Personal Interest / Quotes: Software Development, Scripting, Consulting, Altium Designer book in German
- Languages: German
- Location: EMEA
Henk de Jonge
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- Degrees / Certifications: Bachelor's Degree
Applied Physics - Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials
Altium Designer Advanced
Concord Pro
NEXUS
Altium 365 - Personal Interest / Quotes: "100 things almost done, means nothing finished",
Football Referee - Languages: English
German
Dutch - Location: EMEA
Troy Elton
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- Degrees / Certifications: Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
- Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials, Altium Designer Advanced
- Personal Interest / Quotes: Reading: economics/finance, ancient history. Computer gaming.
- Languages: English
- Location: ANZ
Victor Truong
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- Degrees / Certifications: Electronics Engineering Degree
- Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials, Altium Designer Advanced, Altium Spice, Altium SI, Concord Pro, Altium 365, Altium NEXUS
- Languages: French, English
- Location: EMEA
Stephane Blondeau
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- Degrees / Certifications: Electronics Engineering Degree
- Areas of Specialty / Courses Taught: Altium Designer Essentials, Altium Designer Advanced
- Location: EMEA
- Languages: French, English, Italian
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