Component Creation and Management

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Library Migration: Onboarding Guide 2 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers

Existing Customers Altium Designer, in conjunction with Altium 365, provides a streamlined and highly automated process to quickly migrate your existing libraries

Altium Vault Design And Library Migration Guide 8 min Guide Books LIBRARIES AND DATA This guide provides insight into design project migration into Altium Vault. Library Management in Altium Vault is

Altium Vault Evaluation Guide 1 min Guide Books To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - Evaluating Altium Vault - at Altium.com.

New User's Guide to Defining a Library Methodology 7 min Guide Books When choosing a PCB library methodology, there is no universal solution for all users. While some small business users may

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Ensure Best Designs with Professional Library Management 45 min Webinars Electrical Engineers

Electrical Engineers

In this webinar, you'll discover how Altium Designer facilitates robust component management, including adding part choices to mitigate supply chain

Ensuring Electronic Component Traceability From Idea to Innovation 36 min Thought Leadership Procurement Managers

Procurement Managers

Manufacturing Engineers

Watch the webinar to learn how to achieve full transparency, improve collaboration, and ensure compliance throughout your entire supply chain—whether

Bridge the Information Divide: Altium 365 Meets Z2Data 54 min Webinars Electrical Engineers

Electrical Engineers

Procurement Managers

Watch the webinar to learn how Z2Data can help you build resilience in engineering, compliance, and procurement through the comprehensive

Design with Confidence: Altium 365 Meets SiliconExpert 47 min Webinars PCB Design Engineers

Watch the webinar to learn how SiliconExpert Integration in Altium 365 can optimize your workflows and elevate your design process.

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4:22 Relink Design Components to Managed Components 5 min Videos PCB Design Engineers

Engineering Managers This video demonstrates how unmanaged projects can use managed components, even when a user is offline and using a local machine. In order to link this local project to an Altium 365 Workspace and integrate the resources of Altium 365 into this project, open tools and then the Item Manager. The Item Manager will scan the design and load any components within the design, showing that they are unmanaged. To relink these components located in the local library to the Altium 365 components, click auto match to match each component. If any components fail to match, users can select and navigate to the individual components and manually match them. Then, an ACL and ECO are generated, the changes are executed, and the components are updated. After this is completed, all of the components are updated to the latest revision. Configure the parameters "Visible on Add" by selecting enable for the "PackageCase" parameter and click okay. Refresh the screen and choose a component within the capacitors folder and place it. Now the case size is visible for that capacitor and the Properties Panel also displays this value.

1:14 Configure Visibility of Parameters on Components 2 min Videos PCB Design Engineers

Engineering Managers This video demonstrates how to enable parameters when placing a component. The first step is to open the Explorer Panel, and within components, open the capacitors folder and right click for properties. Configure the parameters "Visible on Add" by selecting enable for the "PackageCase" parameter and click okay. Refresh the screen and choose a component within the capacitors folder and place it. Now the case size is visible for that capacitor and the Properties Panel also displays this value.

4:30 Update Components to the Latest Revision 6 min Videos PCB Design Engineers

Engineering Managers This video demonstrates the process to update components to the latest revision. This may be necessary if a component is placed before updates need to be made in the Altium 365 Library. However, Altium 365 can help users identify any changes to components and update them. Within the Properties Panel in Altium Designer, the revision status identifies if a component is using the latest revision available. If this is not the case, users can click the refresh button to update to the latest revision. Likewise, there are also two methods to update multiple components at once. The first method is to select all of the components and right click and choose update to the latest revision in the Item Manager. Then one can open the ECO, modify any necessary components, and execute these changes. Furthermore, components can also be updated in the BOM Dock in the Active BOM. This pulls in information tied to each component, but the revision status is disabled by default. By right clicking in the column header, choosing select columns, and selecting the revision status “eye” icon, this enables the revision visibility. Users can then right click and update components to the latest revision in operations, and ensure that their part components are up to date.

7:40 Supply Chain Database to Workspace Data Synchronization 7 min Videos PCB Design Engineers

Engineering Managers The Altium 365 Component Library uses part choices to link library components to real world parts that you can purchase. Sometimes you want to add a part that is not known at the mayor supplier or is specifically made for you. When you have (live) data on this part (price/stock), then Altium 365 has a way to periodically upload this data into a customer data provider that your components and downstream systems can utilize as a data source.

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Library Migration: Onboarding Guide 2 min Guide Books PCB Design Engineers

Existing Customers Altium Designer, in conjunction with Altium 365, provides a streamlined and highly automated process to quickly migrate your existing libraries

4:22 Relink Design Components to Managed Components 5 min Videos PCB Design Engineers

Engineering Managers This video demonstrates how unmanaged projects can use managed components, even when a user is offline and using a local machine. In order to link this local project to an Altium 365 Workspace and integrate the resources of Altium 365 into this project, open tools and then the Item Manager. The Item Manager will scan the design and load any components within the design, showing that they are unmanaged. To relink these components located in the local library to the Altium 365 components, click auto match to match each component. If any components fail to match, users can select and navigate to the individual components and manually match them. Then, an ACL and ECO are generated, the changes are executed, and the components are updated. After this is completed, all of the components are updated to the latest revision. Configure the parameters "Visible on Add" by selecting enable for the "PackageCase" parameter and click okay. Refresh the screen and choose a component within the capacitors folder and place it. Now the case size is visible for that capacitor and the Properties Panel also displays this value.

1:14 Configure Visibility of Parameters on Components 2 min Videos PCB Design Engineers

Engineering Managers This video demonstrates how to enable parameters when placing a component. The first step is to open the Explorer Panel, and within components, open the capacitors folder and right click for properties. Configure the parameters "Visible on Add" by selecting enable for the "PackageCase" parameter and click okay. Refresh the screen and choose a component within the capacitors folder and place it. Now the case size is visible for that capacitor and the Properties Panel also displays this value.

4:30 Update Components to the Latest Revision 6 min Videos PCB Design Engineers

Engineering Managers This video demonstrates the process to update components to the latest revision. This may be necessary if a component is placed before updates need to be made in the Altium 365 Library. However, Altium 365 can help users identify any changes to components and update them. Within the Properties Panel in Altium Designer, the revision status identifies if a component is using the latest revision available. If this is not the case, users can click the refresh button to update to the latest revision. Likewise, there are also two methods to update multiple components at once. The first method is to select all of the components and right click and choose update to the latest revision in the Item Manager. Then one can open the ECO, modify any necessary components, and execute these changes. Furthermore, components can also be updated in the BOM Dock in the Active BOM. This pulls in information tied to each component, but the revision status is disabled by default. By right clicking in the column header, choosing select columns, and selecting the revision status “eye” icon, this enables the revision visibility. Users can then right click and update components to the latest revision in operations, and ensure that their part components are up to date.