Altium Designer and Drones: A Practical Case from a Rescue Mission
Reportage | 04.08.2025
Designing a drone isn’t just about electronics. It’s a challenge of team coordination, combining electronic and mechanical engineering, quick component sourcing, and avoiding critical errors.
How to Develop a Drone for a Rescue Mission: A PCB Design Case in Altium Designer
We’re sharing a case from the Altium Stories library, where the Monash UAS team (Australia) demonstrates how, with Altium Designer and the cloud platform Altium 365, they successfully developed an autonomous drone to compete in an international search and rescue competition.
Who it’s for: UAV engineers, drone tech startups, and manufacturers of military or dual-use equipment.
Key Focus Areas
- Managing a complex drone PCB project — from schematic to board layout.
- Integrating ECAD (electronic) and MCAD (mechanical) design workflows.
- How Altium 365 removes collaboration barriers for distributed teams.
- Practical insights: design, component sourcing, and final assembly.
Why This Case Is Relevant
The engineering challenges tackled by these Australian students are also highly relevant to the defense and drone industries in Ukraine and beyond. In fast-paced development environments with limited resources, Altium platforms provide advantages in reliability, speed, and team alignment.
Softprom is the official distributor of Altium in the EMEA region. We assist with licensing, offer trial versions, and provide expert consultations. Reach out — we’ll help you bring new capabilities into your projects.
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