> Scenario: <snip> > Another issue involved with this, and assuming I can do this, how do I get > all of the footprints/symbols used in a PCB or Schematic to point back to > the local library made using "Make Library" under the design tab, rather to > other libraries located elsewhere which may have been used originally. <snip> > > JaMi
JaMi, FYI (For Your Information), I would be very very wary about using the "Make Library" command. As is regrettably typical for Altium's software, that command is buggy in that some of the properties for various types of primitive objects (such as a user-specified value for a pad's or via's Solder Mask Expansion, as just one example) are not properly "copied" (from the "source" component within the PCB document file to the "target" footprint within the PCB Library file). And I have personally had a gutsful of encountering components whose associated footprints had been created by the use of that command - which can be deduced from the "offset" of such components' insertion points from where they could reasonably have been expected to have been located. I have been working on an addon server for Protel 99 SE which will create a "decent" PCB library file from a PCB document file, with the intention of making this available for all interested users. As of yet I haven't figured out how to change the name of the PCB library file which is created by that server (or how to change the name of that file and then add primitives to it afterwards), but if the worst comes to the worst and I can't figure out how to do that, users would arguably still be a lot better off, as it is not unduly difficult to "manually" rename that file - and certainly a lot less bother than having to check and rectify the insertion point of each footprint within the PCB library file, and the properties of each primitive within each footprint within that file. Time permitting, I ultimately hope to provide another two processes within the same server to "export" a PCB library file to an ASCII format file and to "import" such a file back into a PCB library file again. (Users can save schematic document files, schematic library files, and PCB document files in either a binary format or an ASCII format - but PCB library files can only be saved in a binary format, so this addon server would similarly provide, to the maximum possible extent, an ASCII format for PCB library files as well.) I don't think for one minute that Altium's software is totally "bad" - but what is indisputable is that the software which has been provided to users has not been tested anywhere near as well as it should have been, and that it is all too common for truly serious bugs to not be rectified forthwith (quite apart from, and "over and above", the fact that such bugs shouldn't have been present within any publicly released software in the first instance). Regards, Geoff Harland. ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
