QuickNav - Panels in Altium Designer

This panel stores and displays copied objects that can be added (pasted) to applicable Altium Designer documents at any stage, allowing for multiple copy and paste operations.

This panel allows you to add comments (user-added notes) to the active document of a Workspace project (to a point, object, or area on a schematic, 2D PCB, or Draftsman document, or to a row of an ActiveBOM document) and may be replied to by other users. Comments can also be assigned to Workspace members, essentially creating tasks for them. The panel allows all users who are working on a document to add and view all comments without actually modifying the document itself. This feature allows for the facilitation of strong collaborative processes and is invaluable when issues within the document need to be pointed out without physically merging and receiving conflicts. Essentially, the panel can be used to create a 'to do' list and as the design matures, the comments can be resolved and closed. Placed comments are available in real-time to collaborating users - those that have shared access to the document - and are saved to the Workspace independently of the project without altering its constituent documents in any way.

This panel provides a simple and easy way to save and reuse sections of design circuitry, both Workspace-based and local, file-based. Such sections can be added to any PCB design without having to start from scratch each time. The system lets you save any selection of circuitry on a single schematic sheet (a schematic snippet) or circuitry in a PCB design, including the components and the routing (a PCB snippet). When connected to an Altium 365 Workspace, you can create a single entity - a Reuse Block - that can contain both schematic circuitry and its physical representation for the PCB. When such a reuse block is placed on a schematic sheet, its physical representation will be placed automatically on the PCB document during the ECO process.

This panel acts as a direct interface between Altium Designer and a connected Workspace. A Workspace stores your valuable company design data, including components, managed sheets and templates, and completed designs. From the Explorer panel you create and manage the organizational structure used in the Workspace and also create, through direct editing, any number of Items, many of which are representative of design objects. The panel also offers other features and areas of functionality, including control of lifecycles, setting up supply chain information for components and acquiring content from another source Workspace.

This panel provides a powerful interface for searching for, and choosing, the most suitable real-world component parts for your PCB designs. The panel offers a sophisticated search feature based on categories and parametric filtering that allows you to zero-in on the exact manufactured components you need, and also select a preferred supplier of that physical part based on cost and availability. It provides a direct portal to the Altium Parts Provider - an aggregate supplier data service that provides access to live component information from a comprehensive range of parts suppliers. A selected manufactured part can be saved to a connected Workspace or downloaded as a library, or its parameters and datasheets added to an existing part in the design space. Saving to your own connected Workspace involves creating a new component using the Component editor (in its Single Component Editing mode), pre-filled with information from the searched part.

This panel provides the direct interface to Altimade from within Altium Designer and is 'command central' for configuring available manufacturing options, performing necessary project checks and viewing current orders for the PCB. Altium Designer, in conjunction with the Altimade application, enables you to request an instant quote and place an order to produce your PCB directly from the design environment. Using Altimade, you can access up-to-date prices and lead times and track your orders. All data required for manufacturing is shared via the Altium 365 platform, without the need to export and transfer files manually.

This panel contains information and controls that pertain to the item currently selected in the design space. If nothing is selected in the current design space, then options relating to the active document or interactive process are presented. This allows you to change general document options or interactive process options quickly and on-the-fly. Among other standard methods of accessing a panel, the Properties panel can be accessed by double-clicking on an object in the design space or using the F11 keyboard shortcut.

This panel presents all process workflow tasks and activities for the user currently connected to the Workspace. A task appears in the panel when a process workflow, such as a design review or a new part request, has been created and there is an outstanding task in that workflow assigned to the current user. For each task, the panel gives the user access to the associated form, used by the designer to fulfill their contribution to that task. The panel also lists the activities, or workflows, that the current user has initiated.

This panel lists all To-Do items that are currently defined for the active project. A To-Do item is used as a reminder for a task that needs to be carried out at a later stage in relation to a document. The panel can list two varieties of "to do" items for the active project: a project-level To-Do item and a document-level To-Do item (added to a text-based document within the project).

This panel, which is only available when defining/editing a Workspace Library component using the Component editor (in its Single Component Editing mode), displays a pin mapping grid for the current component and allows you to define/edit and view mapping between pins and pads. The panel allows the default one-to-one pin-pad mapping to be changed to a custom relationship, such as one pin being connected to multiple footprint pads or any other non-aligned pin-to-pad number relationship.

This panel allows you to construct filters through the creation of logical queries. A defined filter can then be applied to the active schematic document, all open schematic documents, or all open documents in the same project, allowing you to select and edit multiple objects.

This panel enables you to browse symbols stored in the active Schematic Library document (file-based libraries) or the symbol being defined for a Workspace Library component. When a Schematic Library document is active, the panel populates with information about the symbol currently selected in that library and allows editing of its properties. The panel also supports passing changes made to symbols to open schematic document(s).

This panel allows you to construct filters through the creation of logical queries. A defined filter can then be applied to the active schematic symbol, or all symbols in the active schematic library, allowing you to select and edit multiple objects.

This panel provides editing access to the detailed properties of objects that have been placed in the active Draftsman document. If nothing is selected in the current workspace, then options relating to the active document are presented, allowing you to change general document options and sheet properties quickly and on-the-fly.

This panel is used to control the results of a power delivery network analysis within the PCB design space. It enables you to select a specific network or net to be displayed as a heatmap overlay on the PCB, with the choice of either Current Density or Voltage Drop data and how color is applied to the current density or voltage drop. If the simulation detects a Voltage Drop, Current Density or Max Via Current violation, they are listed on the panel, with the ability to cross-probe to the location of a violation on the PCB. The panel also provides the ability to place single or differential measurement probes directly on the PCB. Probes can either measure Current Density or Voltage Drop (the type of measurement is determined by the current heatmap mode employed). The panel also offers image capture functionality, that can be used to capture a design-specific screenshot of the selected net, for later inclusion into a generated report.