Altium Essentials Training On Demand - Anyone got experience?

[MaTkEOxjC]

Hello,

does anyone have experience with the Altium Essentials On Demand Training for 995$?

Are they worth it, what's the content of the courses?

[jc101]

I got the AD18 course free for a period when I bought a licence a while ago now. 
I found it handy for an overview of the methodology of how AD worked.  If I had to pay for it not sure I would have taken the option.

A potential alternative is Robert Feranec's courses via his website ( https://academy.fedevel.com/home ), he also has quite a few video's up on this YouTube channel with handy tips and tricks for Altium as well as other eCAD tools.

[BitsnBytes]

Hello,

If you are new in PCB design and using Altium I will not recommend to go with the course not because it's not worth it but because you don't need it.

Altium has very strong online documentation, if you are new to PCB design I will recommend you do the crash course of Altium on Youtube from official Altium page.

Then get your hands dirty with actual PCB design and you take help from online documentation. Later if you have need of Altium Essential then go with that.

Regards

[anovickis]

You will be better off taking the classes from fedevel.com, then follow up with many calls to altium to handle the corner cases that don't work. Eventually they will help you.

You can also get some small amount of support on the altium forums, but it really helps to be on the beta form (which you need a subscription for) as they seem to be only fixing things listed there.


I'm guessing another 20 years and we will have a stable and fully functional product at the rate we are going though
My average time to find a new bug is about 20-30 minutes. There's usually some other way to do the same thing. Sometimes I document and pass to them, other times I don't bother. Sometimes I ask for help from them and I get someone who can help and other times I get someone who has no clue and suggests I file a bug

By the way filing a bug does not seem to help get it fixed. Discussing and advocating for it on the beta form is much more effective.

[MaTkEOxjC]

Some time passed, I got the training from my work (did not really ask for it) and I went through it partially.

I would not recommend it to anyone, neither beginner or

• The course is pretty much just the videos, you can find the videos for the previous version on youtube
• The videos are from different versions
• The examples which come with the course do not match those in the video
• I did not find any instructions how to go through the course, what I should do to get the most out of it. It was pretty much just as a bunch of videos.
• The Videos are often quite fast, at the beginning I was watching 5-10 seconds and then trying to replicate it. This is just daunting.
• Depending on what workflow you use, the videos might not be compatible with it. We use a different workflow to create library components.

[plazma]

I and my work mates had the Altium Designer 20 Essentials Course. It was a clasroom training in 3 days.
Traditional training where the instructor teached a topic and then we made exercises.
If there was any troubles or questions about advanced features the instructor was there to help.
IMHO it was a good course especially for my work mated who had no Altium experience before the course.