
You’ll have a complete system that provides comprehensive component management, and this is all accessible within Altium Designer. These problems create the possibility of design errors that slow down development.Īltium 365 solves these problems by providing version control for an entire project, individual libraries, and individual symbols and footprints. You won’t have version control capabilities, and there is always the possibility of omitting an important file when sharing data. Sharing projects by email is time-consuming and leaves you prone to creating design errors. When you’re collaborating on a complex project, you need to share these important pieces of data. Your new circuit board won’t function without the right components, and your CAD tools need symbols and PCB footprints to create an accurate PCB layout. Maybe it's worth spending some time to play with it later but after previous experiences with Altium I'm not immediately confident that it's going to work as well as they make it look.A PCB data management and component management platform that integrates with Altium Designer ® and popular mechanical design tools. Being able to add just a supplier link to an existing part would be great but I get no right click options on the supplier part numbers. It looks like a cool feature but holy shit I do NOT want it to add all ten thousand parameters that all of those suppliers have to my database! It looks like you can filter/translate parameters in the Parts Providers section of settings but it looks like it might be a huge pain. I didn't know you could use the manufacturer part search to import components like that-I've had the same DBLib since before they added that part search and have been managing it manually ever since. What happens when you try? Where do you get stuck? In this case it seems like the problem may actually be that Altium can't write to an Excel file via the database link as dunkemhigh says, so you may not be able to do what you want without switching to access or something else. So you're trying to follow that video, great. You haven't actually answered these questions.
