Altium Designer

Altium Designer Overview

Altium Designer is a comprehensive computer-aided design (CAD) system for radio-electronic equipment developed by the Australian company Altium. Previously, the same company developed the P-CAD CAD system, which gained extraordinary popularity among Russian printed circuit board designers. Altium Designer is a powerful system that allows you to implement electronic designs at the circuit or code level and then transfer the information to an FPGA or printed circuit board. A distinctive feature of the program is the design structure and end-to-end integrity of development at different design levels. In other words, design changes at the board level can be instantly transferred to the FPGA or circuit level and back again. Also, as a priority area for the developers of this program, it is worth noting the integration of ECAD and MCAD systems. Now the development of a printed circuit board is possible in three-dimensional form with bidirectional transfer of information to mechanical CAD systems (Solid Works, Pro/ENGINEER, etc.)

Altium Designer Features

• Change thermal connection styles for pads and vias on the fly.
• Discover how to easily route rigid and flex designs by following the countors of your board.
• Improved features in Draftsman make creating your PCB fabrication and assembly drawings even easier.
• Move components on your board without having to reroute them.
• Organize your design exactly as you want with no layer restrictions.
• Explore how Altium Designer makes it easy to define the materials in your layer stack.
• Manage multiple impedance profiles for stripline, microstrip, single or differential pairs.

Installation

Made a license by combining all the lines found from the previous and posted ones (the last posted text does not contain lines with SolidWorks and Harness Design). Harness Design should also be activated. Set the expiration date to December 31, 2029.

In general, the highlighted lines (and especially the GUIDs, it would be good) can be changed at your discretion.

Clcik to see Screenshot

License in text:

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ProductName=Altium Designer
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TransactorID= 111111
TransactorName= Organization
ProductID=0
VersionID=0
UserCount= 100
ActivationCode= ABCD-EFGH
SerialNumber= 11111111
LicenseUsage=Altium Partner Special – This license can be used on all design projects.
LicenseUsageId=3C4E7870-020F-4FD2-9DAB-0C124EC67BF9
NeedNode=0
LicenseServerType=CLOUD
LicenseType=2
ExpiryDate=Infinite
LeaseExpiryTime=Infinite
RightToUpgradeExpiryDate= 47483
ServerType=0
CanRoam=True
LicenseAssignmentGUID=
LicenseGUID= 4180A9C8-510A-6D6E-60EB-31604A17A333
LeaseCertificateGUID= 81850666-A9B8-4AA7-5059-F608E53C4BC7
BoardUniqueID=
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AD_Modeler_for_SolidWorks_2021
CAM_Editor
CAM_Viewer
CHC_Compiler
DMCU
DXP_Platform
FMCU
FPGA_Devices
FPGA_Synthesis
FPGA_Viewer
Hard_Device_Jtag
MCU_56K_DSP_Freescale
MCU_68K_Freescale
MCU_ARM_AnalogDevices
MCU_ARM_Atmel
MCU_ARM_OKI
MCU_ARM_Philips
MCU_ARM_Samsung
MCU_ARM_Sharp
MCU_ARM_STMicroelectronics
MCU_C166_Infineon
MCU_ColdFire_Freescale
MCU_DragonBall_Freescale
MCU_M16C_M32C_Renesas
MCU_MicroBlaze
MCU_MIPS_AMD
MCU_MIPS_Atmel
MCU_MIPS_QuickLogic
MCU_NIOS
MCU_PICMicro_Microchip
MCU_PowerPC_AMCC
MCU_PowerPC_Freescale
MCU_PowerPC_IBM
MCU_PowerPC_Xilinx
MCU_R8C_Tiny_Renesas
MCU_ST10_STMicroelectronics
MCU_TriCore_Infineon
MCU_TSK165
MCU_TSK3000
MCU_TSK51
MCU_TSK52
MCU_TSK80
PCAD_Definer
PCAD_Layout
PCAD_Manufacturer
PCAD_Viewer
Programmable_Device_Control
Programmable_Device_Flow
Protel_Definer
Protel_Layout
Protel_Manufacturer
Protel_Viewer
Schematic_Editor
Schematic_SoftDesign_Editor
Schematic_Viewer
SI_Layout
SI_Schematic
SIM_Mixed
SIM_VHDL
Situs
Soft_Device_Jtag
Altium_CST_Extension
Altium_Power_Analyzer_by_Keysight
Altium_Designer_Harness
Altium_AFS_Promo_CommentsInAD
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I made my license for 1 user so-so.

Download .alf file and shfolder.dll:

Download .alf file and shfolder.dll (Pixeldrain)

shfolder.dll is taken from the distribution. Put in %ProgramFiles%\Altium\AD23\ (Next to X2.exe )

In Altium Designer versions higher than 23.8, the license is added as follows:

Click to see Screenshot

Attention! When downloading full off-line installers from torrents, check

When downloading full off-line installers from torrents, check that the “Read Only” attribute is cleared for all installation files . Clear it if necessary. Otherwise, problems with installation occur.
The same applies to the “Downloaded from the Internet” attribute on all zip files in the Extensions folder.
Also remove the “Read Only” attribute from the DXP.exe file in the folder of the installed subject (if the Please close Altium Designer to continue window pops up during installation/removal actions ).

File Information

Year/Release Date : 2024
Version : 25.1.2 Build 22
Developer : Altium
Developer’s website : www.altium.com
Bit depth : 64bit
Interface language : English
Tablet : present

System Requirements:

• Intel® Core™ i7 processor or equivalent
• 16GB RAM
• 10GB hard disk space (Install + User Files)
• SSD
• High performance graphics card (supporting DirectX 10 or better), such as GeForce GTX 1060/Radeon RX 470
• Dual monitors with 2560×1440 (or better) screen resolution
• 3D mouse for 3D PCB design, such as the SpaceMouse®
• Adobe® Reader® (version XI or later for 3D PDF viewing)
• Internet Connection
• Up to date Web browser
• Microsoft Office 32-bit or 64-bit (Microsoft Excel required for BOM, Microsoft Access required for DbLibs). 64-bit Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 (required for DbLibs) – this is included in Microsoft Office 64-bit, but not included in Microsoft Office 32-bit). If you are running 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Altium Design software, see Using Database Libraries with 32-bit and 64-bit Altium Design Software on the same Computer .