NI Ultiboard Best Practices Guides (new for v12 or higher)

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These NI Ultiboard Best Practices Guides have been updated for Ultiboard v12 or higher (also valid for the new back/forward annotation in v11 as well).   They are organized by topic to allow you to quickly get information on the topic in which you are most interested.   A few new additional topics have been added.

Essential Tips and Technique Guides

These 4 guides take you through the whole process of transferring you electronic circuit into the Ultiboard PCB design environment and how you can boost your productivity by taking advantages of all the features of it.

Basics on Designing a Printed Circuit Board

Provides a general overview of designing a PCB and how the PCB manufacturing process is handled. Common PCB terminologies, board specifications, schematic capture steps, and layout editing are covered in this guide

Techniques for Transferring Design from Multisim to Ultiboard

This guide shows how to transfer designs from Multisim to Ultiboard and how to maintain fully synchronized schematic capture and PCB layout files within both environments. Mastering this process allows the designer to benefit from advanced capabilities such as advanced netlist management, powerful SPICE simulation, annotation, database management, among others.

Tips and Techniques on Placement and Wiring

This guide provides detailed useful information on how to get parts placed and traces routed in Ultiboard, it contains lots of shortcuts and best practices that will help you get your PCB prototyping job done efficiently. The document includes a one-page shortcut guide you can print out.

Finalizing your PCB design and PCB File Generation

This last document covers how to do final checks on your PCB before submitting drill and gerber files to the PCB manufacturer. You will also find in this document:

     - A generic checklist for PCB checking and file generation

     - A checklist for fabrication and assembly houses

Special Topic Guides

Best Practices for VIA drag

Need to move a VIA and drag the trace with the VIA?  This short guide will show you how.

Tips on Custom Parts and Pad Creation

This guide will help with some tips on how to create a custom part or custom pads in Ultiboard.

Quick Tips and Shortcuts - 1 Page Reference Sheet

Print out this handy tip sheet for a quick reference of commonly used shortcuts and features in Ultiboard.