Tutorial 4 for Altium Beginners: Placement, Variants, Assembly Drawings

Component placement, Filters, Cross Probe, Assembly Drawings, Variants

Step-by-Step video for everyone starting with Altium Designer PCB Layout and Schematic. Enjoy :)

NEW: I updated this tutorial and made a shorter version ( in case you need it ). Here it is:

Links to the complete tutorial:

Tutorial 1 for Altium Beginners: How to draw schematic and create schematic symbols

Tutorial 2 for Altium Beginners: How to create footprints

Tutorial 3 for Altium Beginners: PCB Layout

Tutorial 4 for Altium Beginners: Placement, Variants, Assembly Drawings

Tutorial 5 for Altium Beginners: Generating Manufacturing Outputs

Link to Playlist (All videos from this tutorial in one Playlist):
Altium Tutorial for Beginners - Starting with Altium Designer

The complete project from this video can be downloaded here:

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Updating PCB after Schematic changes
04:04 - Working with Schematic & PCB together
07:36 - Using Cross Probe, Filters, Masking, Zoom
13:12 - Quick way to place components based on schematic
19:04 - Routing the bottom layer
21:29 - Creating assembly drawing layers
25:52 - Updating PCB after changes in footprint
31:02 - Creating Variants

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[JamesSivaaa]

Thank you Robert for this tutorial. It's helped me lot for designing the PCB. For New Altium designer like me this tutorial is very useful. Your teaching is too good. Once again thank you for your great effort.

[ahmadkadahsalim]

You are just a King, always I dreamed to add 3D Model to my PCB Project, without your tutorial I Couldn't do it.
Big thanks to you Sir

[xmengao]

Tutorial 4 is very very practical, because we are always making changes to already-made PCB designs. Thanks!

[unrmaestro]

much appreciated greetings from TURKEY

[Dimitrije-lg]

I still had a problem with highlight gone when component placement, but after I turned off one parameter at the preferences, now it works good (only one parameter should have ON state :Preferences -> PCB Editor -> Display -> Highlighting options -> Highlight in Full) - it solved my problem

[chaochang]

This is very very useful, I don't need to create 3 projects for VER1.0.VER1.1, V1.2!!!

[_teknq]

As an Autodesk Eagle user I found these tutorials pretty helpful. I’d like to know what is the importance of creating a mechanical layer and adding the ‘.designator’ to the layer?

[nairayedigaryan]

Thank You for your very precious information you give us!

[kalakxfif]

Can we add different wiring or extra components to variants? i have been trying to do that, but no luck

[human]

Hello dear Robert. Thanks for the good explanation and step by step. I am following your video with Altium 21, but the type of menu is different. Tell me which version of Altium you used in this video. So that I can use the same version. Thank you very much.

[josxd]

Excellent tutorial Robert, i'm wondering if you know a site or tutorial to learn about electronics such capacitors, mosfets, inductors, etc.? i would like to know their use and how to do calculations to choose the right value of each component. I really hope your answer.

[_tiredofidiocy_]

Is somewhere any guide about using autoplacer in AD? It works very strange for me.

[mandeep]

24:28 Sir, in AD19, the "component layer pair" after clicking on "Update PCB with all" is not working. A new layer by a name "assembly notes" is created and the layer pair will not contain anything. This "assembly notes" layer has everything on one side. Is it a bug or is there any other solution ?

[imcnx]

It doesn’t work the split with assembly on AD19? What’s wrong?

[vicentiomihalache]

Hi
Thanks for rhe videos but, how can I rename a sheet?
Thanks !

[desiodafiq]

My problem, when I click "add component layer pair" and I'm select on top layer menu then I can't see mechanical layer number 29.
can you help me, sir

[ismaeelm]

Hi. When I split the assembly layer as you do in 24 minutes of your video, it does not work though I did everything just like you! I was wondering if anyone could help me, I have no idea!! Thank you

[toeterdetoet]

In minute 30 of tutorial 4 you store a layerset without holes, make the holes visible and read back the layerset.
The holes stay. I expected them to disappear when reading in the stored layer set. ????

[NaaJeevitham]

Can we also model Bondwire in Altium designer?

[mattiagiannini]

How can i change from top to bottom assembly layer of a component?