The Altium Designer Advanced training - offered as both instructor-led sessions and tailored private courses - gives experienced users comprehensive insight into schematic capture, PCB development, project management, and layout setup. Through hands-on exercises in a dedicated workspace and a pre-training setup session, participants gain a highly practical and application-focused learning experience.

• Practical, hands-on training enables you to work confidently with harness components and their real-world use cases
• Discover proven methods to optimize your board design process and significantly minimize design errors
• Build a deeper understanding of Altium Designer’s architecture and workflows
• Customize the third training day in private sessions with modules that deliver maximum value for your team
• Receive a certificate and digital badge to showcase and validate your expertise
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Course Agenda

Getting Started with the Altium Platform
Duration: 1 Hour

Main Topics:

• Learn how to log into the Altium platform, access the assigned training workspace, and establish a connection to the environment
• Navigate through the workspace structure, explore the web interface, and make effective use of the Explorer panel
• Open existing projects or create new ones within the platform to support efficient project management and collaboration
• Customize your design environment by configuring panels, toolbars, and menus to match your workflow preferences
• Set up schematic preferences to streamline the design capture process and maintain consistency across projects
• Master essential navigation within the schematic editor, including settings, mouse controls, commonly used shortcuts, and search functions
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Templates for Project Efficiency
Duration: 2.5 Hours

Main Topics:

• Create customizable Draftsman templates to standardize and accelerate PCB documentation
• Apply Draftsman templates to quickly produce consistent documentation across different projects
• Build reusable project templates to improve efficiency and ensure uniformity across designs
• Start new projects using predefined templates with ready-to-use settings and configurations
• Develop reusable design blocks for commonly used components or circuit sections
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Schematics
Duration: 3 Hours

Main Topics:

• Explore practical applications and use cases for signal harnesses within schematic designs
• Learn how to create signal harnesses step by step to efficiently manage connectivity
• Apply best practices for placing signal harnesses to improve clarity and organization in schematics
• Use signal harnesses to define and manage connections more effectively within your design
• Configure and implement pin swapping options to increase design flexibility
• Create and use true design variants to support multiple configurations within a single project
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PCB Configuration
Duration: 1.5 Hours

Main Topics:

• Perform advanced clearance checks in 3D to verify spacing between components and routing, ensuring compliance with physical and manufacturing constraints
• Define and generate board shapes directly from 3D models, enabling support for more complex and customized PCB geometries

Additional Modules
The course also includes the following topics:

• PCB design methodologies and practical techniques
• High-speed design considerations and use of the Constraint Manager
• Techniques for replicating schematic designs and PCB layouts
• Collaboration tools and project management within the workspace
• Advanced and specialized PCB design features

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