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Module 1: Getting Started

With Altium Designer

Module 1: Getting Started With Altium Designer

1.1 Introduction to Altium Designer...................................................... 1-1

1.1.1 The Altium Designer Integration Platform ...................................................... 1-1

1.2 The Altium Designer environment .................................................. 1-2

1.2.1 The Altium Designer Project .......................................................................... 1-3

1.2.2 Demo — Opening an existing Project ............................................................ 1-3

1.2.3 Editor View ..................................................................................................... 1-4

1.2.4 Exercises — Navigating around Altium Designer .......................................... 1-5

1.3 Document Editor Overview.............................................................. 1-6

1.3.1 Working in a document editor ........................................................................ 1-6

1.4 Working with projects and documents......................................... 1-10

1.4.1 Creating a new project .................................................................................1-10

1.4.2 Adding a new document to the project.........................................................1-11

1.4.3 Adding an existing document to a project ...................................................1-11

1.4.4 Moving or copying a document between projects ........................................1-11

1.4.5 Removing a document from the project .......................................................1-11

1.4.6 File management with the Storage Manager ...............................................1-12

1.4.7 Including other files in the Altium Designer project ......................................1-12

1.4.8 Libraries........................................................................................................1-13

1.4.9 Project Packager ..........................................................................................1-13

1.4.10 Exercise – Working with projects and documents .......................................1-14

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1.1 Introduction to Altium Designer

Underlying the Altium Designer environment is a software integration platform that brings

together all the tools necessary to create a complete environment for electronic product

development, in a single application.

Altium Designer includes tools for all design tasks: from schematic and HDL design capture,

circuit simulation, signal integrity analysis, PCB design, and FPGA-based embedded system

design and development. In addition, the Altium Designer environment can be customized to

meet a wide variety of user requirements.

1.1.1 The Altium Designer Integration Platform

When you select All Programs » Altium Designer Summer 09 from the Windows Start menu

to run Altium Designer, you are actually launching DXP.EXE. The DXP platform underlies Altium

Designer, supporting each of the editors that you use to create your design.

The application interface is automatically configured to suit the document you are working on.

For example, if you open a schematic sheet, appropriate toolbars, menus and shortcut keys are

activated. This feature means that you can switch from routing a PCB, to producing a Bill of

Materials report, to running a transient circuit analysis, and so on – and the correct menus,

toolbars and shortcuts will be readily available.

Also, all toolbars, menus and shortcut keys can also be configured to suit how you like to

configure your design environment.

Figure 1. Altium Designer’s software integration architecture

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1.2 The Altium Designer environment

The Altium Designer environment consists of two main elements:

• The main document editing area of Altium Designer, shown on the right side in

Figure 2

• The Workspace Panels . There are a number of panels in Altium Designer, the default is that

some are docked on the left side of the application, some are available in pop-out mode on

the right side, some are floating, and others are hidden.

When you open Altium Designer, the most common initial tasks are displayed for easy selection

in a special view, called the Home Page .

DXP System Menu

Use this menu to set

up system preference

and customize the

environment. All other

menus and toolbars

automatically change

to suit the documen

being edited.

Document bar

A tab appears for

each open document.

View Navigation

Click on the arrows

to go back and forth

between views.

Workspace panels

More pop out panels

are displayed by

clicking on these tabs.

These panels can also

be moved, docked or

clipped.

Workspace panels

These include Files

and Projects panels.

These panels can be

moved, docked or

clipped by clicking on

the panel title and

dragging it to a new

location.

Click on the tab at the

bottom of the panel to

display its contents.

Home Page Design View

Common tasks are listed

to get started quickly.

Panel Control

Editor specific and

shared panels can be

displayed using these

Panel buttons.

Figure 2. Altium Designer with the DXP Home Page displayed.

Note : To move an individual panel, click and hold on the panel name. To move a set of panels,

click and hold on the panel caption bar away from the panel name. To prevent panels stacking

together, hold the C TRL key. To change a docked panel to pop-out mode click the small pin

icon at the top of the panel, to change it back to docked click the pin icon again.

Note : If you manage to completely ruin your panel layout and wish to revert back to the factory

settings, this can be done by going to the View » Desktop Layouts » Default . It’s best to

restart Altium Designer when you run this. To save a custom layout go to View » Desktop

Layouts » Save Layout . To reload existing layouts go to View » Desktop Layouts » Load

Layout .

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1.2.1 The Altium Designer Project

• The basis of every electronic product design is the project.

• The project links the elements of your design together, including the source schematics, the

PCB, the netlist, and any libraries or models you want to keep in the project.

• The project also stores the project-level options, such as the error checking settings, the

multi-sheet connectivity mode, and the multi-channel annotation scheme.

• There are six project types – PCB projects, FPGA projects, Core Projects, Embedded

Projects, Script Projects and Library Packages (the source for an integrated library).

• Altium Designer allows you to access all documents related to a project via the Projects

panel.

• Related projects can also be linked under a common Workspace, giving easy access to all

files related to a particular product your company is developing.

• When you add documents to a project, such as a schematic sheet, a link to each document

is entered into the project file. The documents can be stored anywhere on your network; they

do not need to be in the same folder as the project file. If they do exist in a directory outside

where the project exists or its sub-directories, then a small arrow symbol appears on the

document’s icon in the Projects panel.

1.2.2 Demo—Opening an existing Project

1. Selectthe File » Open Project menu to

display the Choose Project to Open dialog.

2. Navigate to the project folder, 4 Port

Serial Interface , located in the

\Altium Designer Summer

09\Examples\Reference Designs

directory. Locate 4 Port Serial

Interface.PRJPCB (the project file) and

double-click on it to open it.

3. The design will now be listed in the navigation

tree of the Projects panel.

4. Click on the – signs to contract the folders.

5. Click on + (plus) signs to expand folders.

6. Right-click on the project name (4 Port Serial

Interface.PrjPcb) to display the context

sensitive Projects menu.

Figure 3. The open project is displayed in the

Projects panel.

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