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PCB Design: Create 3D Component in a Footprint Library
In today’s PCB design process, your design and CAD tool needs to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Read on to learn how to create 3D component bodies in a footprint library. In today’s PCB design process, you need to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Transferring inaccurate design data back and forth between the ECAD and MCAD worlds not only causes
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The Wild West of PCB Design - Part Choice Showdown
Does your part selection process ever feel like a wild west showdown, where every stakeholder is out to protect their own self-interests at the expense of your own? Learn how to turn your part choice selections into a win-win for your entire design team with a new feature in Altium Designer
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16. Link Does your part selection process ever feel like a scene from a wild west movie, where every stakeholder is out to protect their own self-interests
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6 Things to Have in Your Team’s PCB Design Library
Components form the building blocks of our Printed Board designs, and making the right component selections can make or break a project’s budget. Are you doing everything you can to ensure that your design is both maintained and updated on a regular basis? More importantly, how are you ensuring that only approved, ready-to-use components are being used in your current PCB designs? Read on as we reveal the 6 things you need to have in your team’s
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Using Configuration Management to Reduce Design Errors and Promote Re-use: Part 1
A Configuration Management system can be used, along with an existing Design Data Management system, to further promote good data integrity. So just what is Configuration Management, and how can the general principles be applied to an electronic design environment? This blog series aims to answer some of the questions surrounding this topic, as well as provide a basic framework for easily integrating a useful Configuration Management system. A [a
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How to use Schematic CAD Drawings for Cable Assemblies: Part 2
The need to design cable assembly drawings often falls to the electronics design team, but for many, the use of high-cost dedicated cabling design software is simply out of reach and overkill. In this second installment of the cable design blog series, Sainesh Solanki reveals the needed design elements of the components used in great cable assembly drawings (you can access part 1 here). These schematic symbols and their associated parameters and
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How to use Schematic CAD Drawings for Cable Assemblies: Part 1
The need for computer-aided cable assembly drawings often falls to the electronics design team, but for many, the use of high-cost dedicated cable design software is simply out of reach and overkill. The solution? Use the Schematic Editor! Most electronic engineers work on products that require Printed Circuit Board designs to be interconnected by cable assemblies. As you might have already noticed, some dedicated tools that primarily focus on
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Practical Steps to Create Embedded Side-Emitting LEDs in a PCB
Embedded PCB cavities can be used along the edge of a PCB to provide side access to components, such as LEDs.
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What's in a Name - Component Code Development Part 2
In this blog, I outline how Altium Designers Content Team names printed circuit board (PCB) components, symbols, and footprints. This seems like an eminently boring place to start, but something I’ve noticed is that figuring out a way to name circuit board components in engineering land often makes for an animated discussion. Parametric information about the component is elevated to the row in the cmplib. This gives us the freedom to name the
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Component Development best practices - Part 1
During the coming weeks, we’d like to post details about our PCB component development standards, practices and processes. Along the way, I’d like open discussion about how you develop libraries, and where do you see challenges. We’d like to pull everything together into more formal best practices and standards guide. With solder paste, a solder mask, printed circuit assembly, and PCB fabrication, there is so much to consider so let's dig in! Hi
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What's the best way to make a library searchable? Parameters - Component Development Part 3
It's one thing to make great components, but it's quite another to make them easy to find. With reusable components, ui component, software engineering and various component based development, things can be complicated to hunt down. In this blog I explain how we handle component parameters, why they are important, and how we kick off our component development process. Looking at the discussion spawned from my first two blogs, I’ve a feeling this
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Altium Vault Primer Part 3: Strategizing Your Day-to-Day Library Management Process
Welcome back to the Altium Vault
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Primer series. In Part 2 we talked about how to unify your design and data management processes by combining both Altium Designer
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and Altium into one unified solution. In Part 3 we’ll be covering how to get started with Altium by strategizing your day-to-day management process with your design team. Welcome back to the Altium Primer series. In Part 2 we talked about how to unify your design and data management
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How to Save Time Managing Your Component Libraries
Component management is a time-consuming and frustrating process that takes valuable time away from other important tasks, but what if there was a way to auto-fill the necessary information for your components? Read on to learn how Altium Vault
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mitigates the management process with the use of a component template. Let us take a look at a pattern library and our component definition. Perhaps one of the most tedious jobs in the ECAD world is
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PCB Libraries: Defining Library Types and Methodologies for Your Design Process
There are various PCB library types and methodologies out there, and selecting which to implement into your design process depends on a number of factors. But how do you know which library methodology is the best? Read on to find out. There are various types of PCB libraries and methodologies out there, and selecting which to implement into your design process depends on a number of factors. While some small business users may require only a bare
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Supply Chain Management: Ensure Component Availability at Design Time
Component availability can result in missed deadlines or render a design unproducible. Learn how to the supply chain management capabilities (SCM) in Altium Designer
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can mitigate these issues. Read on to find out more about our supply chain management program, raw material, logistics management, and the supply chain manager. Not having insight into component availability can result in a product being late, missing a market window, or not even
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Reverse Engineering PCB Project Libraries
Receiving PCB design files from clients isn’t always as smooth a process. Clients may send incomplete project files, project library files with unstandardized component libraries, or other files that don’t match what you actually need. When that happens, how do you proceed with the project? Outsourcing has become the de-facto solution for companies seeking to cut costs and increase their profit margins. Rather than consuming their own resources
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Creating Project Libraries from the Schematic
When you are using an outside manufacturer or sharing a design with another party that does not have access to your internal installed libraries, creating a project makes the data easy to share. No matter how you created your — from already installed libraries, Altium
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libraries, or even manually using a supplier search, you can localize the files for easier creation. This allows for more portability of your design for external sharing. There
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New User's Guide to Defining a Library Methodology
When choosing a PCB library methodology, there is no universal solution for all users. While some small business users may require only the bare essentials, enterprise users may require a highly specific read-only representation with links to the supply chain. Many different types of users in between may have yet entirely different requirements altogether. Consequently, there are several different library types and methodologies to meet this wide
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