PCB Test Fixture Generator
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PCB Test Fixtures Generator for Altium

The Altium extension that builds your PCB test fixtures automatically.

Generate PCB test fixtures for FCT, IFCT and ICT straight from your Altium project. It reads your board, places the pogo pins, checks the pitch, and generates the fixture PCB from manufacturers templates, cutting days of manual work down to minutes.

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Credit: the QueenB board used for this demo was designed by Phil's Lab.
Watch it work

One board in, one fixture out.

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time saved on every fixture
From days
to minutes
Stop building test fixtures by hand.
Locating test points, placing pogo pins, drilling guide plates, checking spacing, managing hardware: done manually, it takes days per fixture and a single mistake makes it unbuildable. This Altium extension automates the full pipeline, so your team ships production test fixtures faster.
How it works

Four steps, inside Altium

1
Pitch check
Measure the centre-to-centre spacing of every test point against the clearance your probes need, and catch what is too tight before anything is built.
2
Configure the fixture
Build the stack from a manufacturer template, or from your own: the gallery takes new manufacturers, new series and your in-house fixtures.
3
Assign the pogo pins
Pick the probes that fit your fixture, filtered by head type, spring force, current and travel.
4
Generate
Your fixture project is generated and opened in Altium, with schematics, PCBs and the full 3D assembly to inspect.
Inside the extension

From your board to a buildable fixture

The extension walks the same path an engineer does: check, configure, assign, generate. It just does it in minutes, and it never mis-measures.

Verify

Catch unbuildable spacing before you build it

The pitch check measures centre-to-centre distance between every test point and lists the ones that break your minimum clearance. The usual clearances are one click away and any other value can be typed in. Violations are circled on an interactive map you can pan, zoom and click, so a fixture that could never be assembled never reaches the shop floor.

Pitch check: 24 test points below the 2 mm clearance, listed and circled.
Configure

Build the stack from real manufacturer templates

Pick a manufacturer and a series, then assign a board to each level of the stack: top probe board, top guide plate, your UUT, locating plate, bottom guide plate, bottom probe board. Each template shows a live preview. Nothing about the gallery is fixed: add another manufacturer or series, add the in-house fixtures your own shop builds, edit them as your standards change, and reuse them on every job.

Fixture templates: a 6-level stack, 59.5 mm overall, with per-level board assignment.
Assign

Give every test point the right probe

Filter the catalogue by head type and by the numbers that decide the choice: spring force, rated current, working and full travel, board-to-tip length, guide hole, pitch. The catalogue is yours to manage from the same window, so you can import the probes your supplier sends you and edit them in place. Anything with a missing parameter is flagged as incomplete rather than silently assigned.

Probe selection: head types, parameters, and a live map of the assigned pads.
Generate

A complete, production-ready fixture project

One click produces the whole multi-board project inside Altium: probe boards, guide plates and locating plate as real PCB documents, schematics with every probe already net-labelled from your board, and a 3D multi-board assembly you can inspect before release.

The generated fixture in 3D, with pogo pins landing on every test point of the UUT.
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Features

What the extension takes over

01
Automatic PCB reading
One click inside Altium reads your board's test points and mounting holes, then generates the complete FCT / IFCT test fixture PCB: probe board plus top and bottom guide plates.
02
A true Altium extension
Runs directly inside Altium Designer with a native, Altium-styled interface. No third-party tool, no export/import round-trips: everything stays in your design flow.
03
Pitch check
Verify center-to-center spacing between test points. The common clearances are one click away (1.0 / 1.27 / 2.0 / 2.54 / 3.0 / 5.08 mm), and any other value you work to can simply be typed in. Violations are circled in orange on the canvas: catch unbuildable layouts before production.
04
Multi-manufacturer template gallery
Start from ready-made fixture templates from multiple manufacturers, with previews, organized by manufacturer and series. The gallery is open: add another manufacturer, another series, or the in-house fixtures your own shop builds, edit them as your standards change, and reuse them across jobs.
05
Pogo pin selection
Assign a pogo pin to every test point, filtered by head type (Spear, Crown, Serrated, Cup, Flat, Dome, Chisel, Star, Needle) and by the parameters that decide the choice: spring force, rated current, working and full travel, board-to-tip length, guide hole and pitch. The list can be narrowed to the pins that actually fit the fixture you selected.
06
Your own probe catalogue
Import the probes your supplier sends you and manage them from the same window: edit parameters, correct them in bulk, and reuse them on every fixture that follows. Missing mandatory parameters are flagged as incomplete instead of being silently assigned.
07
Non-destructive by design
Every run writes to a new, numbered folder, so your previous work is never overwritten. The finished fixture opens automatically in Altium.
08
Solution preview
See the stack you are building as you build it: every level of the fixture and the board assigned to it, with a preview of each template, so you can compare configurations before generating anything.
Who it's for
Test & validation engineers, electronics design teams, and EMS / contract manufacturers who build FCT, IFCT and ICT test fixtures for production, using Altium.
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Requirements
Altium Designer
Windows
Active license (trial or subscription)
Support and every new version are included for as long as the subscription runs.
Installation guide →
FCT & IFCT fixtures, generated inside Altium.
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