

This page of the Installer presents you with the Altium End-User License Agreement (EULA). The following sections provide a summary of the various pages you will encounter. The installer itself is wizard-based, providing a set of progressive (and intuitive) pages that collectively gather the information to effectively install the version of the software, and its initial feature set, as you require.Ĭlick Next to continue. Initial welcome page for the Altium Designer Installer. The Altium Designer Installer welcome page will appear. Running the Installerĭouble-click the AltiumDesignerSetup.exe file. This executable is downloaded from the Downloads page of the Altium website, and can be saved anywhere on your hard disk.Įach version of the software has its own dedicated installer. 11.3MB) executable – AltiumDesignerSetup.exe. To access the Altium Designer Installer, you need to first download and run a small (approx. With both Altium Designer 17.0.xx and 17.1.xx installed side-by-side, you can use the version that best suits your needs - allowing you to continue designing with the former, while being able to access and test-drive the latest features of the latter. You must perform a new clean installation.

In saying that, it is currently not possible to update to Altium Designer 17.1 from Altium Designer 17.0.xx. While it is possible to update to the next point release within a version 'stream', it is not possible to update from one version stream to the next, later version stream. This allows for side-by-side installation with other major released versions of the software. Each major version of Altium Designer is released as a separate full installation with unique default installation paths.
