PCB design · Stream Deck plugin

Altium Designer Live Deck

A key that fires a blind keystroke has to wait its turn for the front window. These go to Altium's own command bus instead, and the dials read the board back as you turn them.

311commands
23categories
8dials
6bundled profiles

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What it does

311 commands across 23 remappable categories covering the PCB editor, the schematic editor, the 3D viewer, CAM, simulation, libraries and the project. 294 of them ride Altium's command bus, so they land with Altium in the background.
Eight dials: zoom, layer, signal layer, snap grid, document tab, undo scrub, schematic zoom, and rotate while placing. Six of them read Altium back onto the touch strip as you turn, so the strip shows the real view width, layer name, snap grid or document name.
A Live State key that updates by itself: focused document, project, current PCB layer, snap grid, view width, selection count, active editor, or bridge status. Switch on Follow Altium and the deck jumps to the page for whichever editor you move into.
The Stream Deck + XL opens on a numeric pad that types a track width, a via size or a grid straight into the field Altium already has focused, with the touch strip echoing the digits as a value console.
Six bundled profiles, one per Stream Deck model. The Stream Deck and the Stream Deck XL open on a category hub with every command already wired to a key, and Easy Link sits on the top left key of each.
Every key can play a press sound: 30 in the box, or your own recordings from our free Sound Sampler.

What you need

Windows 10 or later, Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer, and Altium Designer 26 on Windows. Built and measured against Altium Designer 26.10.1.6.

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Good to know

Altium Designer 26 on Windows, measured on 26.10.1.6, with Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer. Profiles are bundled for six decks: the Stream Deck, the Stream Deck +, the Stream Deck + XL, the Stream Deck XL, the Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo.
Nothing to configure. The first command you press installs a small script under your user folder and starts it inside Altium. Pause Bridge stops that script from a key while you run your own project scripts, and Restart Bridge brings it back.
Commands go to Altium's own command bus, so most of them land while another window has focus. The Rotate While Placing dial and the numpad keys send keystrokes instead, so keep Altium in front for those. The numpad types into whatever field Altium already has focused; it does not open the field for you.
PCB and schematic keys refuse politely when the wrong editor is in front rather than firing blind. With Altium closed, the Live State key and the dial strips say so instead of showing a stale value.
Runs entirely on your machine: the resident script stays in your user folder, touches no project files and sends nothing anywhere. No account, no telemetry.

True of every plugin we make

Every key carries the app's own shortcut for that command, and every key is remappable. Type your combination into the property inspector or click Capture and press it once. Where an app leaves a command unbound, the key still reaches it by the route that app exposes.
Keystrokes go to the front window and nothing steals focus, so keep the target app in front when you press.
Every command has its own drawn key art, so the deck reads at a glance instead of listing shortcuts.

Read the full quick fixes, or see this plugin on the support hub.

Still stuck? Email [email protected] with the plugin name, your Stream Deck software version, and what you pressed versus what happened. A human answers.