While there are 100,000s of components that can be sourced from the Altium Content Vault and available libraries, you will also need to create your own. The heart of any electronics design is the components. The project brings together all of the files in the design and stores the setup and error checking settings. You can even easily re-use an existing circuit, either using a simple copy/paste/reannotate process or as a device sheet where the source schematic is not edited.īefore you create your first schematic, create the project. You can transfer a section of the design to the PCB editor then transfer additional sections when they are ready.

You can capture the sections on separate schematic sheets then build up the overall design as you are ready. Altium Designer has a number of features to help you design in this way. The circuit will typically be created in sections: the processor and memory, the analog to digital processing of inputs, the display interface, the power supply, and so on. On one hand there is the detail around the idea - will that complex concept actually work? On the other hand, there is the detail that comes with drafting a circuit that can have tens to hundreds of components connected by hundreds to thousands of nets - is it wired correctly?įor both of these reasons, an electronics design tends to evolve. The process sounds simple enough: place some components and wire them up - however, the challenge is in the details.

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