Table of Contents
Module 1: Getting Started With Altium Designer
1.1 Introduction to Altium Designer .........................................................................................1-1
1.2 The Altium Designer environment.....................................................................................1-2
1.3 Document Editor Overview................................................................................................1-6
1.4 Working with projects and documents ............................................................................1-10
Module 2: Help and DXP system menu
2.1 Using the Help system.......................................................................................................2-1
2.2 Using the Altium website ...................................................................................................2-3
2.3 DXP System menu...........................................................................................................2-10
Module 3: Schematic Editor Basics
3.1 Schematic Editor basics ....................................................................................................3-1
3.2 Schematic graphical objects..............................................................................................3-4
3.3 Schematic electrical objects ..............................................................................................3-9
Module 4: Schematic Capture
4.1 Introduction to Schematic Capture....................................................................................4-1
4.2 The Schematic Editor workspace......................................................................................4-2
4.3 Libraries and components .................................................................................................4-9
4.4 Placing and wiring ............................................................................................................4-17
Module 5: Multi-Sheet Design
5.1 Multi-Sheet Design.............................................................................................................5-1
Module 6: Building the Project
6.1 Assigning designators........................................................................................................6-1
6.2 Compiling and verifying the project ...................................................................................6-5
Module 7: Setting Up for Transfer to PCB and Importing Data
7.1 Setting Up for Transfer to PCB..........................................................................................7-1
Module 8: PCB Editor Basics
8.1 PCB Editor Basics..............................................................................................................8-1