How to share an Altium project

Option 1: export a PDF

Smart PDF produces a document of the schematic sheets and, if you add them, the PCB layers. It is useful for a labelled review package and needs no CAD install. It is a snapshot, so identify the source revision and include the BOM or fabrication outputs needed for the review. It does not provide an editable project or live version history by itself.

Option 2: the Altium 365 Viewer

Altium's free viewer at altium.com/viewer opens a project you drag in, with no account on either side, and shows the schematic, the PCB in 2D and 3D, and a BOM. The upload lives for your browser session; a share link lasts 48 hours, and Altium notes that such links can be indexed by search engines. With a free Altium account the design can be saved to a personal space permanently, with comments and downloads. If your team's project lives in an Altium 365 workspace, the workspace shares it the same way, with project history and comparisons behind it.

The viewer is useful for a one-off inspection; Personal Space adds persistent sharing, and a workspace supports an Altium team's native design workflow. Distinguish those products: a Personal Space snapshot is not the workspace's project history.

Option 3: upload the project to BoardRepo

Zip the project folder, including the .PrjPcb, the .SchDoc sheets, the .PcbDoc, and any libraries and outputs alongside them, and upload it. BoardRepo converts the design for viewing and gives the project a page: the schematic sheets and the PCB when conversion and rendering succeed, an available extracted BOM, and retained source files for download. Check the upload review for excluded files. Public boards need no account; other sharing modes require their access proof. Browser inspection needs no Altium installation.

Two things to know about the conversion. It is for viewing, so keep working from your original project and verify anything that matters in Altium Designer; BoardRepo keeps the original beside the converted copy for exactly that reason. And fabrication outputs are not generated from a converted board: BoardRepo does not produce Gerbers from a lossy import. If you include your own Gerbers or position files in the zip, they are listed and downloadable like every other file.

Everything else works the way it does for any board. Upload a new revision and it becomes the next numbered version; the link keeps pointing at the latest, older versions stay downloadable, and a signed-in reader can compare two versions visually when both have compatible, available comparison data. Choose Public, Unlisted with a token-bearing link, Password, or Private with authorized access. Team organization setup is through contact, with board grants and roles.

Choosing between them

Keep Altium 365 when its native workspace and release workflow fit the team. Choose BoardRepo for a source-version workspace alongside KiCad projects, available browser inspection and structured context for your own connected assistant. Organization assistant access is separately approved and follows your board permissions. Altium conversion is for inspection and does not turn a design into a verified KiCad manufacturing source. You can use both systems and send a selected version link so a later upload does not change the review target.

Upload an Altium project, or see how BoardRepo compares to Altium 365.

Continue your work

Connect your AI to inspect board context and use separately approved personal saving where available. Use BoardRepo for KiCad to Push and Pull versions from the editor. For a shared organization workspace, contact us about Team.