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Introducing
Tutorial
A step-by-step introduction to
Altium’s complete board-level design system
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Table of Contents
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Welcome to Protel DXP
Welcome to the world of Protel DXP – a complete 32- bit electronic design system for Windows NT/XP.
Protel DXP provides a completely integrated suite of design tools that lets you easily take your designs
from concept through to final board layout.
All Protel DXP tools run within a single application environment – the Design Explorer . Start Protel DXP
and the Design Explorer opens, putting all your design tools at your fingertips. You benefit from a
single, consistent, customizable user environment.
This tutorial is designed to give you an overview of how to create a schematic, update the design
information to a PCB and generate manufacturing output files. It also investigates the concept of
projects, integrated libraries and circuit simulation.
The Protel DXP Design Explorer
The Design Explorer is your interface to your designs and the design tools. To start Protel DXP and
open the Design Explorer, select Programs » Altium » Protel DXP from the Windows Start menu. When
you open Protel DXP, the most common initial tasks are displayed for easy selection.
System Menu
Click the down-arrow
icon to display the
System menu and set
up the system
preferences. All other
menus and toolbars
automatically change
to suit the document
being edited.
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,
Projects and Help
Advisor 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.
Workspace
Common tasks
are listed to get
started quickly.
Panel Control
Editor specific
and shared
panels can be
chosen from the
Panel Control list.
Help Advisor
Use the natural
language help
system to quickly
find the answer to
your question.
As you create your design documents, you can easily switch between editors, for example, the
Schematic Editor and the PCB Editor. The Design Explorer will change toolbars and menus according
to the editor you are currently working in. The name of some workspace panels will initially be
displayed down the right side of the workspace. Click on these names to pop out the panels, which
then can be moved, docked or clipped to suit your work environment.
The following diagram shows the Design Explorer when several documents and editors are open at
the same time and the windows have been tiled.
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Document tabs
Each open document
has its own tab at the
top of the design
window. Right-click
on a tab to close,
split or tile the open
windows.
Design Window
Displays the documents
that are currently open in
this design.
Workspace panels
Click on these
buttons to display
the associated
workspace panel.
Schematic Editor
Graphical and List views
You can choose between
showing your documents
in a graphical view in the
design window, or as a list
of objects with their
properties in the List view
( View » Workspace
Panels > List ), or both.
PCB Editor
Mask Level button
Allows you to change
the level of dimming of
unmasked objects.
Click Clear to clear
the current mask.
Layer tabs
Each PCB layer
has its own tab.
Workspace panels
Click on these
buttons to display
the associated
workspace panel.
How the design documents are stored
Protel DXP stores all the design documents and output files on your hard disk as individual files. You
can use the Windows Explorer to search for them. Project files can be created that contain links to the
design documents and are necessary for design verification and synchronization.
Creating a new project
A project in Protel DXP consists of links to all documents and setups related to a design. A project file,
e.g. xxx.PrjPCB , is an ASCII text file that lists which documents are in the project and related output
setups, e.g. for printing and CAM. Documents that are not associated with a project are called ‘free
documents’. Links to schematic sheets and a target output, e.g. PCB, FPGA, embedded (VHDL) or
library package, are added to a project. Once the project is compiled, design verification,
synchronization and comparison can take place. Any changes to the original schematics or PCB, for
example, are updated in the project when compiled.
The process of creating a new project is the same for all project types. We will use the PCB project as
an example. We will create the project file first and then create the blank schematic sheet to add the
new empty project. Later in this tutorial we will create a blank PCB and add it to the project as well.
To start the tutorial, create a new PCB project:
1. Click on Create a new Board Level Design Project in the Pick a Task section of the design window.
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Alternatively, you could click on Blank Project (PCB) in the New section of the Files panel. If this
panel is not displayed, select File » New , or click on the Files tab at the bottom of the Design
Manager panel.
2. The Projects panel displays. The new project file, PCB Project1.PrjPCB , is listed here with no
documents added.
3. Rename the new project file (with a .PrjPCB extension) by selecting File » Save Project As .
Navigate to a location where you would like to store the project on your hard disk, type the name
Multivibrator.PrjPCB in the File Name field and click on Save .
Next we will create a schematic to add to the empty project file. The schematic will be for an astable
multivibrator circuit.
Creating a new schematic sheet
Create a new schematic sheet by completing the following steps:
1. Select File » New and click on Schematic Sheet in the New section of the Files panel. A blank
schematic sheet named Sheet1.SchDoc displays in the design window and the schematic
document is automatically added (linked) to the project. The schematic sheet is now listed under
Schematic Sheets beneath the project name in the Projects tab.
2. Rename the new schematic file (with a .SchDoc extension) by selecting File » Save As . Navigate to
a location where you would like to store the schematic on your hard disk, type the name
Multivibrator.SchDoc in the File Name field and click on Save .
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