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Getting started with AllSpice

AllSpice is a hardware development platform for schematic review, PCB layout collaboration, design reviews, repository management, and AI-assisted design review.

If you are looking for the best way to get started with AllSpice, this page will help you find the right path quickly. Whether you are an electrical engineer reviewing a board, a team lead onboarding teammates, or an admin setting up a secure workspace, you can start here and move from first login to first value without guessing.

Start with a Quick Review

If you only do one thing today, start with Quick Review.

  1. Upload a real design package
  2. View schematics and PCB layout in the browser
  3. Leave at least one review comment
  4. Share the review link with a teammate

This is the fastest way to see how AllSpice supports hardware design review and engineering collaboration without a lot of setup.

Choose the right AllSpice path

Pick the path that matches what you need to do first.

What most new AllSpice users do in the first 30 minutes

These are the most common first steps for new users learning how to use AllSpice:

If you are not sure where to begin, this sequence is a safe place to start. It helps you move from an uploaded design to a shared review workflow with real collaboration.

Engineer onboarding for hardware design review

Use this path if you are an electrical engineer, PCB designer, or reviewer who wants to understand how AllSpice fits into day-to-day hardware development.

  1. What is AllSpice?
  2. Quick Review
  3. Design Reviews Overview
  4. Repositories Overview
  5. Hardware Releases Overview

This path is designed to get you from product orientation to hands-on review, repository workflows, and release management.

Team onboarding and admin setup

Use this path if you are setting up AllSpice for a team, organizing access, or making sure your workspace is configured correctly from the start.

  1. Adding your teammates
  2. Admin Overview
  3. Organizations
  4. Teams
  5. Authentication
  6. Security and Trust

This path helps managers, admins, and technical leads set up users, permissions, authentication, and team structure with less backtracking later.

AI-assisted design review with DRCY

Use this path if you want automated first-pass checks as part of your hardware review workflow.

  1. DRCY AI Overview
  2. What is DRCY
  3. Running a DRCY Review
  4. DRCY Best Practices
  5. DRCY FAQs

DRCY helps teams improve review consistency with automated, inspectable first-pass analysis inside AllSpice. Engineers stay in control and make the final decisions.

Automation and API workflows

Use this path if you want to connect AllSpice to repeatable engineering workflows, automate tasks, or work with the AllSpice API.

  1. Automation Overview
  2. Automation Workflows Overview
  3. Getting Started with Automations
  4. API Overview
  5. AllSpice API
  6. YAML Reference

This path is useful for teams building scalable hardware workflows around reviews, repositories, releases, and internal tooling.

FAQs and troubleshooting

If you are blocked, these pages can help you get unstuck quickly:

Where to go after you get started

After your first review or setup, these are strong next steps:

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