Window Welcome to Altium Designer Installer will appear on the screen. Click on the Next button. The next step is to select Design Functionality and click on the Next button. Select the folders where the software and documents will be installed. After a few minutes Installation Complete window will appear.
You have successfully installed Altium Designer on your computer. You can check Run Altium Designer and click finish to exit the installation wizard. Windows will run Altium Designer for the first time and License Management window will appear. In this moment you are not using a valid license. Click Sign in to retrieve the list of available licenses.
Available Altium versions for downloading are: Enjoy using Altium Designer! Whether using an On-Demand license, Standalone license, or Private Server license, the Available Licenses region of the page will automatically present the specific licenses available to you. Choose the license that you want to use and then click on the applicable command, depending on how you want to use that license. Accessing the License Management view.
Main article: Dashboard. The Altium Dashboard is a dedicated area that allows administrators of an organization's Altium account to manage the users, licenses and other assets associated to that account, as well as defining the organization's profile — which can be made public, for viewing by other organizations and their users, within the AltiumLive community.
Account management of any type should never feel burdensome. With the Dashboard , being able to manage all aspects of an organization's account is both intuitive and expedient, and all from the one convenient location. The Dashboard will even notify of pending items requiring action, such as renewing that subscription that is about to expire - and enable renewal to be conducted right there-and-then, online and hassle free, allowing the organization to remain licensed with continuous subscription and access to all the benefits that that entails.
Use the Dashboard to manage your account with Altium including, most importantly, your product licensing. Altium Designer Licensing System. Using Altium Documentation. Now reading version For the latest, read: Licensing System for version Use the following links to go straight to detailed information for your specific license type: On-Demand License , Standalone License , Private Server License.
This license type provides the greatest degree of flexibility for users who plan to work from multiple machines with an active internet connection. This license type is ideal for a single workstation and solo designer, and requires no active internet connection.
This license type is ideal for those who want the flexibility of accessing their licenses from multiple machines, but are not able to connect to the Altium On-Demand license server. Access continues to be available to the legacy PLS software , whose setup and use is often preferable for smaller organizations. One thing to note is that server redundancy is not yet supported with the Altium Infrastructure Server.
Please use the legacy Private License Server software if this functionality is required.
