In this webinar, we will show you how easy and fast it is with Altium Designer 21 to create a prototype from scratch, automatically generate manufacturing files and standardized documentation – and all of this by only using the tools included in the unified design environment of Altium Designer 21.
WE WILL SHOWCASE THE FOLLOWING:
- Schematic entry and component selection
- Generating a bill of material with current supplier information from the field
- PCB-Design and board outline fitting in 3D
- Generating manufacturing files and documentation
Timing:
Friday, 17th September 2021 | 2:30 PM to 04:00 PM
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Webinar Recording
Unified design environment vs modular best-of-breed
Altium Designer’s headline strength is the unified design environment: schematic capture, PCB layout, BOM management, supplier integration, and 3D ECAD/MCAD review under one roof, on one license, with one support contract. That story works well for individual engineers and small teams that own the entire design end-to-end and need fast time-to-prototype.
The trade-off shows up at scale: when a team needs deep signal integrity sign-off on every channel, manufacturing DFM analysis tied to a specific fabricator’s process capabilities, or multi-board / multi-site collaboration on a single design database, the all-in-one tool starts to compromise on each individual capability. Siemens Xpedition takes the opposite approach, best-of-breed modules (layout, routing, simulation, DFM) sharing one design database, and the toolchain that GSAS supports in India reflects that.
How GSAS recommends choosing between them
- Stay on the unified single-tool flow if your team is 1–3 designers, your boards top out at 8 layers and a few thousand nets, and your typical sign-off is “fab the prototype and hope.” That’s the Altium sweet spot, and the existing webinars and recordings here cover the workflow well.
- Move to Xpedition Standard when the team grows to 4+ designers, your boards push into 10+ layers, you need cloud DFM (Valor) catching fabricator issues before fab release, or you want AI-assisted command prediction and sketch routing in your day-to-day flow.
- Move to Xpedition Enterprise for multi-board systems, advanced rigid-flex, full HyperLynx SI/PI sign-off, and large geographically distributed teams.
For a topic-by-topic comparison, see our Altium Designer vs Siemens Xpedition Standard for Indian PCB teams guide.
About GSAS Workshop Series
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