Hey Vasil, Are you not able to download the layout files or open them after downloading and extracting the zipped folders? I went to the product page, clicked 'Download Design Files', downloaded the Altium Rev A zipped folder, extracted the files, and opened TID00524.PrjPcb with Altium. Altium Designer provides various user-selectable options for generating and exporting Gerber files for both X1 and X2 formats. For X1, these can be accessed on the Gerber Setup dialog from an OutputJob Configuration file (.OutJob) or from the main menu in an active PCB document by clicking on File » Fabrication Outputs » Gerber Files. In PCB design and development today, concurrent engineering and other collaborative strategies are increasingly being deployed to improve efficiency. Altium Designer supports this development with a BRD file viewer free download, as well as other tools.
Files for Manufacture
- EasyEDA support exporting the PCB in Altium Designer format. Via “File Export Altium” you will get a.pcbdoc file. When open the exported PCB file at Altium Designer, there will open a dialog of DXP Import Wizard, don’t worry, just cancel it to continue. No Copper Area fill data. And then, you will see the PCB file.
- How to Open PCB File Types with Altium Designer’s PCB Viewer Check out the Altium Designer PCB viewer free download-It’s the best option for accessing PCB layouts in the EDA file format. The viewer takes all formats within the output files, the container for schematics, layouts, and manufacturing files.
Our project is now complete. The schematic is drawn, the list of components is complete and verified, the PCB is composed and has been checked for errors, and the assembly drawing is ready. The next step is to upload all the required files in order for the PCB manufacturer and assembler to get the final (and already working) device. At the very least, the manufacturer should get information about the PCB materials and layers set, NCDrill files, and Gerber or OBD++ files to create a conductive pattern on the layers of the designed PCB. These files can be uploaded individually, but it is much easier and faster to use the OutJob file to output all the necessary files at once. Each output is configured with its own settings output format. OutJobs are very flexible – they can include as many or as few outputs as required and any number of OutJobs can be included in a project. The best approach is to use one OutJob to configure all outputs required for each specific type of output being generated from the project. Let’s create the OutJob file for exporting all output files of our drone PCB.
Make sure that project Kame_FMU.PrjPCB is active. Select File > New > Output Job File from the main menus to create a new OutJob file related to the project. A new OutJob editor will open in the design space with the settings of output files. In this editor, you can specify all the necessary documents for export and upload them at the same time. Simultaneously, the new.OutJob document will appear in the project tree.
The main section of this editor is Outputs and it is divided into groups depending on the type of documentation: Assembly, Fabrication, Report, etc. To manufacture and assemble the drone PCB, we need to get the following set of files:
- Schematic Drawing
- Assembly Drawing
- Pick and Place file for automatic component placement
- Bill of Materials report
- Board Stackup Information
- Gerber/ODB++ files to replicate the conductive copper pattern on a real PCB
- NC Drill files for PCB drilling
- 3D model of our PCB
Altium Pcb Layout
Once the OutJob file is configured, all these files can be uploaded with a few mouse clicks even after changes in the project. Also, the number of OutJob files in the project is unlimited, so in your projects, you can separate them by functionality outputs or by PCB variants. In the following guides, all the necessary documents and files will be configured and generated depending on their type
Altium File Types