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Your First Altium Project (view source)
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From outside of Altium, go to altium-core/starter-projects/ and copy the folder "major-key-starter." Copy it into the folder called "working," and change its name to "major-key-<your-name>." Go into that folder and double-click on "major-key.PrjPcb" (possibly just showing up as "major-key") to open it in Altium.
From outside of Altium, go to altium-core/starter-projects/ and copy the folder "major-key-starter." Copy it into the folder called "working," and change its name to "major-key-<your-name>." Go into that folder and double-click on "major-key.PrjPcb" (possibly just showing up as "major-key") to open it in Altium.
===Check Out The Schematic===
From Altium, look at the Projects panel, and expand major-key. Open "TopSheet.SchDoc."
This document is the "top sheet" (hence the name) for the project. A board in Altium consists of one or more "sheets," pages of the electrical schematic. They are arranged hierarchically - every design with more than one sheet needs a "top" sheet and then "subsheets," which can be nested an arbitrary number of times (subsheets can have subsheets, which can have subsheets, which can have subsheets...) The green box (known as a "sheet symbol") represents a subsheet, containing the schematic for an Arduino microcontroller. You can open that sheet either from the Projects panel or by hitting {{altium-shortcut|ctrl + double click}} on the sheet symbol.
We won't need to edit the subsheet for this project, but it may prove helpful to look at as an example of what an Altium schematic can look like.