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I have recently started long and painful journey of learning pascal and scripting in Altium. I did it because afaik there was no better way to import dozens of parameters in to the project other than by hand.
We use specifically project parameters to keep track of the versions, revisions and whatnot, it was pain in the rear to do it by hand so here is this neat script that can import them for you from CSV or TXT file. GitHub LINK
Future plan is to integrate it somehow with Acces database (that we are still using for some reason). Most probably with help of some python script to extract what i need.

Let me know if it is usefull for you or if you have any other cool ideas for future scripts that may help with the workflow, i may look in to it in some free time.

Disclosure: I work for Altium on the team building Requirements Portal, part of Altium 365.

If you're already using Altium, you may have heard of Requirements Portal, our cloud tool for managing engineering requirements and verification.

We've just launched Agentic AI for Requirements, and I wanted to explain what it is, especially for anyone who sees "AI" in a requirements tool and immediately gets nervous. That reaction is fair, so let me be clear about the boundaries first.

What it will never do: it doesn't act on its own, it doesn't change anything in your project without you approving it, and it doesn't replace the person responsible for requirements. There's no autonomous agent editing your spec behind your back. The principle we built everything on is simple: AI proposes, you decide.

What it's actually for is the tedious part of the job:

- Cleaning up the busywork: drafting or restructuring requirements from docs you already have (a PDF, a spreadsheet, an email thread) so you're not retyping everything by hand. You review what it produces before anything sticks.

- Catching review errors: surfacing gaps, inconsistencies, or missing traceability links, so errors get caught early.

- Reusing your team's standards: you can define how your team writes or checks requirements once, and apply it consistently, rather than re-explaining it every time.

Everything is a suggestion you approve or reject. The engineer stays in the loop on every change, while the AI just does the grunt work that usually eats the time.

Genuinely curious how this community feels about it:

- is the busywork (writing up requirements, keeping them consistent, checking traceability) the part you'd actually want help with? Or is there something else that's more painful?

- Where's the line for you: what would you want AI to help with, and what would you never want it touching?

Happy to answer anything about what we've built and why.

Hi,

I know this is against the normal PCB Design workflow, but I need to create the PCBDoc from old Gerbers as original design files were lost. Would anyone know how to convert Gerber files to PCBDoc please? Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

So, local distributor seems to be trying to rip us off and I can’t find a direct way to contact them other than the AI chatbot thingy that will most likely route me to the local guy again. Anyone knows how to reach Altium HQ directly? I don’t wanna do a twitter/linkedin shoutout because that looks silly

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hey, im designing my first pcb and schematic and want to make everything very neat. i'm having trouble figuring out a method to make these pin connections look organized so i was wondering if anyone knew a convention i should follow.

the green box is what i am talking about. thank you!

Need books and solid references on EMI filter design for Power Electronics Static Converters

Hello everyone,

I am hoping to find from you books and solid references on EMI filter design for Power Electronics Static Converters

I already did some recherches but i did not find straight forward method taking into account the basic problem such as : desired attenuation, resonance damping and middelbrock stability craterea ... etc.

Thank you in advance

I have been using Altium designer (crack version) for the last 2 years. It was working properly and doing my job as i am not designing complex circuits.

Now, I have changed my Laptop and want to download the same crack version but i am facing issue which is more likely because of operating system is windows 11. Back then, It was windows 10.

Does anyone knows the solution for this one?