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PCB fabrication data

Working with Customer PCB Fabrication Data Through the Cloud Manufacturing won’t begin until you can receive and inspect PCB fabrication data from customers. Here’s how Altium 365 helps by bringing design and fab data into Altium Designer. Read Article

PCB design reuse

Complete Guide to PCB Component and Design Reuse in the Cloud Isaac Newton once said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Not all designs need to be remade from scratch, and if you organize your designs properly you can easily reuse your old design data in a new project. PCB design reuse practices are great for cutting down design time and ensuring all your products live up to the same level of quality. It’s all about making sure the knowledge you’ve gained from building Read Article

Enclosures for Flex, Rigid-flex, and Multiboard Designs

How to Use ECAD/MCAD Co-design for Your PCB Enclosure and Board Layout Printed circuit boards are fun to design and lay out, but a PCB will need an enclosure to hold it mechanically stable. PCB enclosures can be purchased off-the-shelf or they can be custom-designed in MCAD tools. No matter which route you take to create your enclosure, you’ll need to import your PCB layout into MCAD tools to ensure your board and components will not interfere with the enclosure. When you’re working with a complex layout, multiboard Read Article

Managing Component Obsolescence with a Unified Data Solution

Managing Component Parts Obsolescence with a Unified Data Solution Altium Concord Pro^™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions. Learn more here. If components stayed competitive forever, your smartphone would run on vacuum tubes. Obsolescence is an essential part of electronics. It represents an advance in technology, although it is incremental. However, it can also create some pain points for PCB designers Read Article

Using the iPad Pro for Electronic Design

Using the iPad Pro for PCB Electronic Design Altium 365 was updated with a smoother, more feature-full and more intuitive interface for the web design viewer. I want to use this occasion to share with you some of my favourite apps and websites for electronic design. Read Article

Sharing Inside and Outside Your Altium 365 Workspace

Sharing Inside and Outside Your Altium 365 Workspace Forget about sending emails with design data. You can use sharing in Altium 365 to give anyone access to your PCB projects within a web browser. Read Article

How to Involve Customers in PCB Product Development

How to Involve Customers in PCB Product Development Follow our guide to learn how to involve customers in your PCB product development process. Read Article

PCB manufacturing quality control

Managing PCB Manufacturing Quality Control in the Cloud You and your manufacturer can track quality problems and correct at the design level when you use cloud tools for PCB manufacturing quality control. Read Article

Polygon pour and copper in a PCB layout

PCB Polygon Management: Pour and Copper Features in Complex Layouts PCB polygon pour and copper features in your PCB layout need to be carefully managed, especially when collaborating with other designers. Read Article

Altium 365 Demonstration

Increasing PCB Prototype Iteration Speed in the Cloud Stay productive and increase PCB prototype iteration speed with the right set of design collaboration utilities in your PCB design software. Read Article

PCB design collaboration and time management

Top 4 Time Wasters in PCB Design Collaboration PCB design collaboration doesn’t have to be difficult when you use the right project management and communication tools. Read Article

Altium 365 Easy Collaboration

Best Practices in Hardware Version Control Systems Read more about some best practices for using hardware version control systems in electronics design. Read Article

How Multifunctional Hardware Teams Can Collaborate

IoT PCB Design: It's More Than Just Hardware Development Altium 365 makes IoT PCB design and coding easy. Share your designs, control revisions, and fork projects directly in Altium Designer or through Altium Concord Pro. Read Article

Hardware development cycle PCB design

Prepare to Share: How to Make the Most of Collaborative PCB Design Before you start sharing design data, run through this checklist to make sure collaborative PCB design is a productive experience. Read Article

Tips for Managing the Hardware Development Cycle

Tips for Managing the Hardware Development Life Cycle Your PCB design team needs to stay productive. Here’s how you can control the hardware development cycle when working remotely. Read Article

Take Control of the Electronics Life Cycle with Cloud Collaboration

Take Control of the Electronics Life Cycle with Cloud Collaboration The electronics life cycle is a funny thing in that it relies so heavily on component lifecycles. Despite this relationship, every electronic product lifecycle follows a similar track as any other product. New products start with early adoption, later rise with sustained growth to peak adoption, and fade as new products become available with better features. Once you accept this fact, you can determine how to plan out your design and business Read Article

Altium 365 Library Migration: How it Works and Why You Should Use It

Altium 365 Library Migration: How it Works and Why You Should Use It Your libraries are the cornerstone of your PCB design projects. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to load up custom footprints, access schematic symbols, or much else for your PCB projects. When you need to share projects or existing component data with your team, what’s the easiest way to get the data you need without creating long email chains? Before working with Altium 365, we were stuck using tools like Slack, email, an FTP server, Dropbox Read Article