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• Al tiums Amazing Features Project
• AMltiuamnDeasiggneer ims coensnidetreTd
  toheoeplitsome of EDA tools for hardware design
  engineers when it
• comes to professional schematic and PCB design.
  It is inclusive and encompassing as far as
• all the steps in the design and management
  process are concerned.
• This series of articles has been divided into
  three parts based on the design stage, i.e.,
  design process tools, project management tools,
  and collaboration tools.
• In this second article of the series, we ll
  cover tools that set Altium apart from other
  tools for schematic and PCB project design
  management.
• Table of Content
• Project Management Tools
• 1. Active BOM
• 2. Design Rules Wizard
• Steps for Se ing Custom Rules
• 3. Release Management
• Steps for Generating Fabrication Outputs
• 3. SmartPDF

Project Management Tools 1. Active BOM
Bill of Materials or BOM can be generated in two
ways in Altium. On way is to go to the Reports
tab and generate Bill of Materials. This gives
you a speci ed set of a ributes that will be
included in the Excel sheet.
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Bill of Materials BOM The alternate method is
through the ActiveBOM utility provided by Altium.
ActiveBOM is an interactive way of creating and
maintaining BOM during the design and sourcing
phase of the project. ActiveBOM can be generated
by going to Project tab, selecting Add New to
project and clicking ActiveBOM.
Generating Fabrication Output A new le will be
added to project documents list with BomDoc
extension. . ActiveBOM provides a exible
real-time view of the BOM during the design
phase. If a new component is added, the
ActiveBOM will be automatically updated. .
Another cool feature is maintaining the part
choices for each device in the schematic. You
can have a primary solution and several secondary
solution. If you click on any row in the
ActiveBOM document, you ll see a primary
solution with supplier information in the bo om
tab. . You can add alternate choices by going
to Add Solution bu on, selecting alternate part
number and click OK. . You can also prioritize
the solution list by giving each solution a Star
rating. The solution with the higher rating will
be displaying as primary solution and others as
secondary solutions. In this way, you can change
solutions if there is an availability issue with
the primary one.
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Design Rules Wizard Generally when we are se
ing design rules for schematic and PCB design,
the design rules apply to every entity placed on
the board. This restricts theOusxerefrlomtecucstho
mizing his rules based on the nature of the
circuit block i.e. power supply or Analog/Digital
circuitry etc. Altium resolves this issue by
providing Design Rules Wizard in which you can
set custom design rules for speci c Nets or Net
Classes on the board. These rules can also be
prioritized in comparison with normal rules as
per requirements. Steps For Setting Custom
Rules . Rules Wizard can be accessed by going
to Design tab and selecting Rules Wizard.

1. On the next window, we can select constraint type
   such as Clearance Constraint.
2. After selecting constraint type, scope window
   opens up in which we can limit the scope of rule
   to individual Nets, Net Classes or the entire
   board etc.

4. After se ing the rule, the rule should show up
in the Rules list. The priority of each rule
can also be prioritized in the same window.
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OXELTECH For the sample circuit given below, a
custom rule for GND Net has been set which has
higher value of clearance constraint.
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The priority of the GND rule is set higher than
the normal rule. After the application, the PCB
copper is poured. The output is given here
We can see that all the GND Nets and Pads have
higher clearance than the rest of the nets. 3.
Release Management After the completion of a PCB
design, the nal task usually is to send
appropriate les to the fabrication/assembly
house for fabrication and assembly of PCB. Altium
Release Management features provides extensive
help in this regard. You can select les for di
erent functions or tasks and this tool neatly
organizes the appropriate fabrication output les
for the fabrication/assembly house to
use. Steps For Generating Fabrication Outputs 1.
To generate les, you have to create an output job
le. Go to File, select New and click Output
Job File.
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Select the output les that you need to be
exported and connect them to containers of your
choice i.e. either in PDF format or in separate
folders. To do this, you have to rst click on
container type and then click on the les that go
with that format. Oxel tech
Generating Fabrication Output After nishing the
connections, click on each container type and
click Generate Content. The generated outputs
will be at the path speci ed in the container
box. 3. SmartPDF Altium o ers an interactive
version of PDF that can be generated known as
Smart PDF. In this version of PDF, devices are
clickable and their properties can be checked
upon clicking. Furthermore, we can e iciently
search a particular part by its name, designator
or any other parameter. SmartPDF can be
generated by going to File tab and clicking
SmartPDF
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