Yesterday I posted Doomium running inside Altium Designer.
The first version used a window over the PCB editor, which wasn't stupid enough.
So now there are two more renderers. One draws DOOM using actual PCB fills, and the other uses colored PCB regions.
Yes, these are real objects in the PCB document.
I got Doom running in Altium Designer. Now I'll grab a bite to eat, build the installer, and upload it to GitHub. All the best!
I’m an Industrial Engineering student with a big interest in the art of PCB design, and I decided to make it the focus of my thesis.
There’s a ton of material online about schematic capture and layout, but I’ve found surprisingly little about everything that happens before and after those stages which is exactly what I’m researching.
So I’d love to interview people who work professionally with PCBs, whether you’re a designer, engineer, librarian, manufacturer, reviewer, sourcing person, or involved anywhere else in the process.
It would just be an informal conversation about how things actually work in practice. And if you’re comfortable with it, I’d also be happy to cite your experience in the thesis.
If you’d be willing to help, please comment or DM me :)
P.S. Even if you’re not interested, please leave an upvote, it would genuinely help this reach the right people
I'm working on a version control tool for Altium called RevTrace, and before I go much further with it I want to understand how people actually handle this now.
At the moment RevTrace supports both schematics and PCB documents. The idea is to have version control that understands Altium projects instead of treating them as opaque files.
I'm interested in how you currently work:
I'm not trying to sell anything here. I'm mostly trying to figure out whether this solves a real problem outside of my own workflow, and what people would actually want from it.
I'm also interested in finding an investor or partner for RevTrace if there is enough demand. My current thinking is that the development cost for a tool like this is relatively low compared with the value it could provide to professional Altium users, so if the market is there, I think there could be a fairly short path to paying back the initial investment.
Also, slightly unrelated: I'm currently looking for work. I'm open to relocating pretty much anywhere and I'd be happy either to keep developing something like RevTrace inside a company or just work as an electronics/PCB engineer.
Portfolio:
https://peerlist.io/ikozlyanskiy
If your team happens to be looking for someone, or if RevTrace sounds interesting from an investment or product perspective, feel free to message me.
Hey r/Altium! We want to know what you've been up to!
Here’s a place to post screenshots or renders with small blurbs about what you’ve been working on.
Let’s see some of your professional or passion projects and get inspired!
Note: We also want to avoid any sensitive or NDA related issues, so make sure you CAN post pictures or details.
Hiya. I've been working on this project lately and I've found that it's starting to get a bit unorganised - particularly from the amount of series resistors and test points on my signal lines.
At the moment, I have the test points and resistors on my top-level to keep the clutter out of the individual sheets, but it's just made the top-level a mess.
I'm heavily inclined to use buses and signal harnesses, but I'm unsure how I would attach the individual test point and resistor for each signal without distributing them across all my sheets and basically just moving the mess around.
Any tips? Thanks!
Another MCP for Altium: altium-workspace-mcp
Hi everyone,
I’ve been experimenting with AI agents and Altium and ended up writing another MCP server:
https://github.com/Heegiiny/altium-workspace-mcp
I was inspired by altium-designer-mcp. It already allows you to create and edit footprints and symbols, but I think the bottleneck is file exchange. What I wanted in addition was direct access to the Altium Workspace / Vault.
altium-workspace-mcp lets an agent browse and search components, edit parameters, manage folders, templates, and component types, work with revisions, relink models, and perform bulk operations directly in the Workspace.
It also works nicely together with altium-designer-mcp: the Workspace MCP can export .SchLib / .PcbLib files, let the other MCP edit them, then upload the new revision back and relink the components.
For me, the main idea is to use Altium Workspace / Altium 365 as a collaboration layer between a human and an AI agent, instead of inventing a separate file exchange workflow.
Long term, I’d like the agent to integrate into Altium through Altium 365 in a similar way to another team member.
I’d be interested to hear how other Altium users are approaching AI/agent integration.
