Altium Onboarding

Altium Designer is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool used to create electrical schematics and printed circuit boards (PCBs).

Create an AltiumLive student account

If you already have an Altium account, please skip to Installing Altium Designer.

Create an AltiumLive Student Account

Note

Unless you are provided with a license from IIT Motorsports, you will have to renew your student license every six months to maintain access to Altium Designer.

Installing Altium Designer

Altium Designer is only available on Windows x86 systems. PCBs can be viewed from other operating systems through Altium 365.

Download the .exe file for Altium Designer from their download page.

Download Altium Designer

Activate Altium Designer

After installing Altium Designer, open the program and navigate to the upper-right hand user menu and select Licenses. If you aren't already signed in, click Sign In.

Once logged in, Altium Designer will display all licenses associated with the AltiumLive account. Select the active license and click use.