Hello All,
We've released some CircuitStudio How-To videos, here's what we have so far:
| # | Video | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to download and activate your CircuitStudio license | How to download and install CircuitStudio then signing in with your email / password and checking you have your license. |
| 2 | How to create polygon pours and internal planes | Quickly pour a polygon, define layer and net and learn how design rules influence the polygon connection style (thermal reliefs etc). Internal planes are edited as negative layers, adding lines and other shapes leaves gaps in the copper allowing the creation of split planes. |
| 3 | How to Create a Component | Covers schematic symbols, PCB footprints and attaching 3D models. Learn how to make fully purchasable parts by using supplier links. Advanced topics such as multi-part components are not covered. |
| 4 | How to Start a New Project | Learn how CircuitStudio organises files into projects and how templates can be used when creating a new project. Recommendations include establishing design rules before launching into the design itself. Demonstrates how rules checking can highlight errors on the schematic. |
| 5 | How To Keep Organized with Multi-sheet Designs | Covers flat and hierarchical multi-sheet designs and the use of ports to connect up between sheets. More advanced topics such as repeated blocks are not covered. |
| 6 | How to Utilize Cross-Probe, Masking and Highlighting | Cross probe between schematic and PCB with either continuous or jump mode. Also covers filter mode to browse through a list of PCB objects. The demonstration shows a split document window to view the schematic and PCB simultaneously, for those with multiple monitors you can also tear off a document and move to a second monitor. |
| 7 | How to Compare Differences | How has a design changed? Find out using the comparator tool. |
| 8 | How to Route | Interactive routing demonstration including push & shove and ability to route differential pairs. Loop removal is covered, an easy way to adjust existing routing without having to first rip it up. The integrated auto-router is briefly mentioned. |
| 9 | How to Create and Edit Your Board Shape | Demonstration of editing tools and the best practice of also defining the outline shape on the Keep Out and Outline layers to help when generating manufacturing data. |
| 10 | How to Setup and Route A Differential Pair | Covers setting up differential pair definitions on the schematic, passing through to the PCB and establishing design rules that influence how the traces will route. |
| 11 | How to Navigate The User Interface | Covers the ribbon menu, panels, shortcuts. Not covered in this short introduction are full coverage of dockable / floating panels and multi-monitor operation. |
| 12 | How to Create Keepout Objects | How to draw keepout objects and the different betwee global and layer specific. Layer specific keepout objects are not included in manufacturing data such as Gerber and ODB++. |
| 13 | How to setup design rules | Learn about rule categories, creating new rules and setting priorities. |
| 14 | How to Generate Classes | Classes allow the logical grouping of objects which helps when defining targeted design rules. |
| 15 | How to Setup and Route Differential Pairs | This video will cover how to create, setup rules, and route differential pairs |
| 16 | How To Find and Place Components | This video will cover some basics on how to find and place components in your design |
| 17 | How to use version control | This video will cover how to setup and use the built in version control in CircuitStudio |
| 18 | How to Reuse Output Documentation Settings | This video will cover how to reuse your output documentation settings, such as gerbers, drill drawings and so on. |
| 19 | How to Configure Your BOM | This video covers how one can configure their BOM document to their specific needs |
| 20 | How to Dimension | This video goes over the different dimensioning types and how to access them |
| 21 | How to create Schematic & PCB Printouts | This video covers how to create schematic and PCB printouts |
| 22 | How to Use the Selection Filter | Find out how to use the selection filter in CircuitStudio |
| 23 | Discover how to create, edit, and remove layer sets in CircuitStudio | |
| 24 | How to Create a 3D PDF | Discover how to create a 3D PDF of your PCB to send to your colleges, or employer |
We will continue to add videos as they're done, so stay tuned!
Alexsander Tamari, Altium
