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Tutorial - A Complete Design Walkthrough with Altium NEXUS

Created: January 10, 2022 | Updated: September 02, 2022 | Applies to version: 5

This documentation page references Altium NEXUS/NEXUS Client (part of the deployed NEXUS solution), which has been discontinued. All your PCB design, data management and collaboration needs can now be delivered by Altium Designer and a connected Altium 365 Workspace. Check out the FAQs page for more information.

Welcome to the world of electronic product development in Altium's world-class electronic design software. This tutorial will help you get started by taking you through the entire process of designing a simple PCB – from idea to output files.

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The Design

The design for which you will be creating the schematic and designing a printed circuit board (PCB) is a simple astable multivibrator. The circuit is shown below; it uses two general-purpose NPN transistors configured as a self-running astable multivibrator.

Circuit for the multivibrator.
Circuit for the multivibrator.

The animation of the designed PCB
The animation of the designed PCB

Altium NEXUS can connect to a Workspace to provide a single, secure data source and storage while affording unparalleled collaboration. It could be an Altium 365 Workspace – a Workspace hosted on the Altium 365 cloud-based infrastructure platform, or NEXUS Server Workspace – a Workspace provided through Altium NEXUS Server, a solution installed and managed by your own IT department.

This tutorial focuses on using Altium NEXUS with a connected Workspace – the most streamlined and empowered environment for your design needs. However, if you are not able to enjoy the benefits that a connected Workspace brings, you can store your design data, including projects, component libraries, and design outputs, locally on your hard drive or in a shared network resource.

To complete this tutorial, you will need to be connected to a Workspace. It is assumed that your Workspace has been activated/installed with the sample data.

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You're ready to begin capturing (drawing) the schematic. The first step is to create a PCB project.

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