Handling Special Solder Mask Requirements.Footprints with Multiple Pads Connected to the Same Pin.Creating Footprints with an Irregular Pad Shape.Drawing the Outline on the Component Overlay.Using the IPC® Compliant Footprint Wizard.Creating an Alternate View Mode for a Part.Creating a New Schematic Component with Multiple Parts.Copying Components from Other Libraries.Checking the Component and Generating Reports.Parameters for Component-to-Datasheet Linking.Adding Footprint Models to a Schematic Component.Adding Models to the Schematic Component.Setting the Schematic Component's Properties.Creating a New Library Package and Schematic Library.Schematic Libraries, Models and Integrated Libraries.But for now, Access is the tool to use when adding new components or mutating data. Later on we will port the front-end into our corporate, web browser based Infinity system. This will address the issue that you need 64bit Office for Altium version 18 and 32bit version for Altium 17. So Altium does not retrieve component information from Access but directly from our SQL server.
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This will gain the possibility to gather real time status information of our stocked components in Altium, running nightly jobs to update information and performing back-ups. To maintain our Altium SQL database, we wrote a front-end in Access which will directly talk to SQL and not to Altium. Currently our SQL server is also our back-end for our ERP system. We choose to use Microsoft SQL server as our back-end. Like all the SMD shapes such as 0201, 0402, 0603, 0805, 1206 and a bunch of through hole shapes. Unfortunately, for the footprints you will need a lot more. For example: when creating a library for capacitors you only need a few symbols like a normal capacitor, polarized capacitor and maybe a variable capacitor. Apart from an unique ID you do not need to enter any parameters to the components. When using database libraries, you can keep them very clean. Like adding a whole capacitor range with all those values (1nF, 2n2F, 4n7F, 10nF etc) means multiple copies of the same part.Īll the above challenges are addressed when using database structured libraries.