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Requirements Portal is under continuous development. This page outlines new features and enhancements made to Requirements Portal in key updates. When the Sharing of Requirements Projects feature is released: remove the box below, leave the content. Update - xx October 2026 Sharing of Requirements Projects Requirements projects are now shown on the Projects page of the Workspace browser interface…

Altium Designer’s CAM editor preferences let you customize settings for viewing, editing, importing, and exporting CAM data. This article outlines the available controls, from layer colors and drawing modes to thermal clearance checks, Quick Load options, and film box settings. Keep reading to find the preferences that fit your CAM workflow. - Learn how to adjust display settings, grids, object…

Bring system requirements into your PCB design workflow with Requirements Portal and Altium Designer. This article explains how to link a design project to a Requirements Portal System Design Block, place requirement instances on design documents, assign requirement-related tasks, and update verification statuses. Read on to learn how to manage requirements alongside your design and keep…

The goal of this tutorial is to cover the most basic functionalities of Requirements Portal. The tutorial will take you from an empty Requirements Portal instance to a set of requirements living inside a real PCB project – a Flight Management Unit of a Drone. This tutorial is planned as a three-part series. At this time, only Part 1 is available. Parts 2 and 3 are currently in development and…

Requirements Portal supports commenting within your requirement projects. A comment is a user-added note that is assigned to a specific requirement, specification, section, V&V activity, or block and may be replied to by other users. Comments promote collaboration between users without altering the shared data itself, because comments are stored by the Workspace independently of that data. You…

Altium’s requirements management and Verifications & Validations capabilities are purpose-built for electronics teams. Available in an Altium 365 Workspace created as part of the Altium Develop, Altium Agile Teams, or Altium Agile Enterprise solution, they replace scattered spreadsheets with a collaborative, versioned and traceable environment that integrates directly with your design and…

Agentic Requirements Engineering in Requirements Portal introduces AI agents that work directly with requirements data, transforming requirements from static documentation into a living, shared engineering model. Rather than forcing engineers to spend time on administrative tasks, Requirements Portal allows AI to answer project-specific questions, propose requirement updates, perform quality…

This article introduces the Manufacturing design rule types available for PCB layout in Altium Designer, with a focus on how these rules help define fabrication limits and guide layout decisions. It specifically highlights rules such as Minimum Annular Ring and explains how manufacturing constraints can affect routing density, board reliability, and production cost. If you want a clearer…

Learn how to work in NC Editor mode with a CAM document in Altium Designer's CAMtastic editor, from converting circular flashes into drill points and changing drill tools, to generating a drill layer from Gerber data. This article also explains how to place drill points, circles, slots, and text, and add drill points to rout plunge points, with guidance on active layers and tool definitions. Keep…

Learn how to place and edit CAM objects in Altium Designer’s CAMtastic editor, from cutting and copying between documents to creating multiple copies, clearing, mirroring, moving, and rotating objects. This guide explains the selection tools, reference points, and clipboard restrictions that govern these operations. Keep reading to put these techniques to work with greater confidence. -…