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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Free PCB Design Tools | CircuitMaker
Why CircuitMaker
"You deserve something better. You’re part of the electronics maker and hobbyist community, and you’re coming up with amazingly cool and innovative things every day. We think you deserve better design tools, made specifically for you, to turn those great ideas into reality. That’s why we’re developing CircuitMaker.CircuitMaker will be a free PCB design tool powered by Altium. With a streamlined interface and powerful engine to boot, you’ll never have to worry about your software holding you back. This will be a free design tool unlike anything you’ve seen before."
Monday, November 3, 2014
PCB Libraries
PCB Libraries Expert - for Altium Designer
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PCB Libraries is my favorite tool for designing Altium footprints.
PCB Library Expert Overview - Video
"The new V2015 “PCB Library Expert” by PCB Libraries, Inc. has a new Altium Script Interface that imports both the Footprint and 3D STEP Model simultaneously and imports the Height and Description attributes straight from the FPX file.
PCB Library Expert to Altium via Script - User Guide
Altium layer assignments are user definable. Also, the 3D Model rotates the same as the Footprint (if you rotate the footprint in Library Expert the 3D model will match the rotation).
You can import one part or 10,000 parts at a time to create an entire new library using your personal library construction preferences."
Source: PCB Libraries - Tom Hausherr
I'll post a review covering the new features in V2015 soon . . .
Randy Clemmons CID+
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PCB Libraries is my favorite tool for designing Altium footprints.
PCB Library Expert Overview - Video
"The new V2015 “PCB Library Expert” by PCB Libraries, Inc. has a new Altium Script Interface that imports both the Footprint and 3D STEP Model simultaneously and imports the Height and Description attributes straight from the FPX file.
PCB Library Expert to Altium via Script - User Guide
Altium layer assignments are user definable. Also, the 3D Model rotates the same as the Footprint (if you rotate the footprint in Library Expert the 3D model will match the rotation).
You can import one part or 10,000 parts at a time to create an entire new library using your personal library construction preferences."
Source: PCB Libraries - Tom Hausherr
I'll post a review covering the new features in V2015 soon . . .
Here are some great FP Designer videos (5 minutes each) –
Randy Clemmons CID+
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