Libraries have gone all digital, and the same should apply to your component libraries for your PCBs. Here’s how this works through Altium Designer using the Altium 365 platform. Other designers on your team can then access your components and download the components they need into a new component library for use in new projects. This includes manufacturer CAD models, which you might have downloaded from Octopart, a parts creation service, or a GitHub repository. With the data sharing tools in Altium 365, it’s extremely easy to place all your components in a single repository. As soon as a file name is changed and uploaded to your Dropbox account or FTP server, you’ve created a new version history that can be impossible to track. These tools all have their place in the remote work and collaboration ecosystem, but they make tracking of components, libraries, and other data very difficult. When you need to share projects or existing component data with your team, what’s the easiest way to get the data you need without creating long email chains?īefore working with Altium 365, we were stuck using tools like Slack, email, an FTP server, Dropbox, Skype, and even Google Drive for data storage. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to load up custom footprints, access schematic symbols, or much else for your PCB projects. Thus the first step is to create an Integrated library project.Your libraries are the cornerstone of your PCB design projects. Thus package lib file is one that binds the various model files into a single integrated library file. One of them is to create a new package library(.PkgLib), add the schematic library(.SchLib)with schematic model, footprint library(.PcbLib) with footprint and other files(simulation, signal integrity, 3D) and compile the package library into integrated library file. There are number of ways to create Integrated Library file(.IntLib). This way designers can quickly have a unified library of a component instead of having distributed parts in different folder. Integrated library is one unique feature of Altium designer that allows users to have an integrated library of schematic symbol, footprint, simulation model, signal integrity file and 3D view of the component. This is a overall tutorial on how to create an integrated library in Altium designer.
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