Hi Philip Salmony, i would like to recommend using the footprint model from the PCB library option "library path" instead "any" while assigning footprint to a symbol. this could avoid picking up the different footprint while using different footprint library files.
Hi Phil, Thank you for the great video. What is your approach when creating other footprints ( i.e. SOIC, MSOP, SOT-23) especially considering that different manufacturers show slight differences in dimensions and tolerances? Do you usually follow a more generic approach like a single footprint covering multiple i.e. SOIC8 packages and increasing tolerances if it's required by when a new component is added? Or would you recommend having a single footprint for each component (at least per manufacturer)? But then how could we fit this approach when having alternative components with the "same" package?
Here is a neat trick. In the comment section type in as an example this =Value+' '+Toleranse This will take produce a comment like this 1K 1% If the component value parameter is 1K and the toleranse parameter is 1%. The ' ' is a space you could use '-' to make 1K-1%. Another example is =Designator+'-' Value+' '+Toleranse. Will make a comment string like this R5-1K 1%.
So far so good. But some important information is missing. I would like to have a separate component in my library for each R0402 resistor value, for example, where all the information (manufacturer, order number, ....) is already stored. Do I have to draw a new symbol each time? How can the local library be moved to the workspace for access from several computers?
Why can I not simply move items from the part search into my library and edit the existing files Altium provides. Why must I down load or use the cloud system to do what I believe to be a simple application
You do realize you can change the parameters in a symbol once you put it into a schematic, right? You can have an SchLib file full of generic parts, and have a footprint assigned to each part, then you can change the MPN and supplier information once the part is placed in the schematic. You can also copy that specific 0402 to a new part and give it a new MPN inside the SchLib.
If y'all are having trouble putting the footprint on the component you drew due to it not showing up try restarting Altium it fixed it for me. Make sure you save first*
While footprint generator advanced a little in Altium, I do prefer creating own 3D bodies. It comes especially handy, when projects are size constrained or parts are exotic. 0402 in example will be unfit in ultrahigh density applications.
This is good, but it's too easy to just jump to the IPC wizard and call the tutorial done. That's for beginners. For those of us trying to cross-train from another layout software, we're more interested in the common problems, such as a custom connector with mechanical drawing using strange relative dimensions, and custom annotations in the schematic. Please provide a followup for those features.
In the good old days we had a Library which contained symbols and footprints. Can somebody point me to a chart that explains what the gazillion new terms mean. Altium videos seem to just use these terms randomly without any specific definition,
so he starts off making a schematic symbol and the name of the file is a schlib but then he starts calling what hes creating.... a component. Does Altium not realise how confusing their use of terms is?
So now he shows us that a .SchLIb can contain more than one entry. Thats a confusing name for a Library that contains entries which we are actually components and not schematic symbols. The file name extension should actually be more like .CompLib. That would maje more sense
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This helps , what we also would like is a video showing how for a professional industry design nomenclature of parts is done and BOM is generated
Hi Philip Salmony, i would like to recommend using the footprint model from the PCB library option "library path" instead "any" while assigning footprint to a symbol. this could avoid picking up the different footprint while using different footprint library files.
Thanks for the tip!
Great video, thanks.
Hi Phil,
Thank you for the great video.
What is your approach when creating other footprints ( i.e. SOIC, MSOP, SOT-23) especially considering that different manufacturers show slight differences in dimensions and tolerances?
Do you usually follow a more generic approach like a single footprint covering multiple i.e. SOIC8 packages and increasing tolerances if it's required by when a new component is added?
Or would you recommend having a single footprint for each component (at least per manufacturer)? But then how could we fit this approach when having alternative components with the "same" package?
Thank you for the detailed explanations
Glad it was helpful!
which "component type" that fit with through hole resistor ( timeline : 9:01 in video )??
Here is a neat trick. In the comment section type in as an example this =Value+' '+Toleranse This will take produce a comment like this 1K 1% If the component value parameter is 1K and the toleranse parameter is 1%. The ' ' is a space you could use '-' to make 1K-1%. Another example is =Designator+'-' Value+' '+Toleranse. Will make a comment string like this R5-1K 1%.
So far so good. But some important information is missing. I would like to have a separate component in my library for each R0402 resistor value, for example, where all the information (manufacturer, order number, ....) is already stored. Do I have to draw a new symbol each time?
How can the local library be moved to the workspace for access from several computers?
Why can I not simply move items from the part search into my library and edit the existing files Altium provides. Why must I down load or use the cloud system to do what I believe to be a simple application
Very helpful
so youve created a footprint for a very specific 0402 from a datasheet rather than from a standard that all 0402s should be. Nuts!
You do realize you can change the parameters in a symbol once you put it into a schematic, right? You can have an SchLib file full of generic parts, and have a footprint assigned to each part, then you can change the MPN and supplier information once the part is placed in the schematic. You can also copy that specific 0402 to a new part and give it a new MPN inside the SchLib.
Shouldnt a library contain a symbol for a resistor that is independent of the size of the physical resistor?
please give me list playlist include this video ? I wanna learn from scratch !!
The double side assembly usually increase the assembly cost even only with a few parts
If y'all are having trouble putting the footprint on the component you drew due to it not showing up try restarting Altium it fixed it for me. Make sure you save first*
While footprint generator advanced a little in Altium, I do prefer creating own 3D bodies. It comes especially handy, when projects are size constrained or parts are exotic. 0402 in example will be unfit in ultrahigh density applications.
good and thank u too bro
good luck
Hi! Thanks for this video. Is it possible that this is an AI generated trainer?
It is absolutely not an AI generated video
This is good, but it's too easy to just jump to the IPC wizard and call the tutorial done. That's for beginners. For those of us trying to cross-train from another layout software, we're more interested in the common problems, such as a custom connector with mechanical drawing using strange relative dimensions, and custom annotations in the schematic. Please provide a followup for those features.
In the good old days we had a Library which contained symbols and footprints. Can somebody point me to a chart that explains what the gazillion new terms mean. Altium videos seem to just use these terms randomly without any specific definition,
Isn't the bandwidth range wrong? Should be, .1 to .3 if one follow the Yageo datasheet for 0402
На привьюхе резистор по ГОСТу, а не забугорный, я правильно понимаю?
so he starts off making a schematic symbol and the name of the file is a schlib but then he starts calling what hes creating.... a component. Does Altium not realise how confusing their use of terms is?
So now he shows us that a .SchLIb can contain more than one entry. Thats a confusing name for a Library that contains entries which we are actually components and not schematic symbols. The file name extension should actually be more like .CompLib. That would maje more sense
That was complete rubbish