[3] The product became available in the United States, Canada, and Mexico beginning in 1986, marketed by San Diego–based ACCEL Technologies, Inc., under the name Tango PCB.

Altium Designer version 6.8 from 2007 was the first to offer 3D visualization and clearance checking of PCBs directly within the PCB editor.

[citation needed] Altium Designer's suite encompasses four main functional areas, including schematic capture,[4] 3D PCB design,[5] field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development[6] and release/data management.

[10] Altium 365, a cloud-based infrastructure platform, connects all key stakeholders and disciplines for PCB design.

Altium Designer supports import & export of various PCB and CAD data exchange file formats.