Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Parameters Auto Positions - Fix

Symbol Library





Value
Voltage

Autoposition Unchecked 
Left Justified
Allow Synchronization with Database

See Altium Forum

How to stop AD from resetting all parameter positions in schematic when changing visibility of one parameter?

"When in the symbol editor, and with nothing selected, press the O key for "Options", a menu will pop up with Document Options... at the top of the list. Click on Document Options... (the fast way is to press the O key and then the D key) You can also get there by the menu as Tools -> Document Options...


This will bring up the Library Options in the Properties panel. At the very bottom there is a check box for "Show Comment/Designator". Check this checkbox. The Comment string and the Designator string will now display in the symbol editor if they contain data in their values.

Now, in the symbol editor with the Comment and Designator displayed, you can select the Comment and/or the Designator string(s) and set the Autoposition, the JustificationFont and other settings in the Properties panel. You can also position them and they will keep that position, if they have Autoposition unchecked, when the symbol is placed in a schematic."


Thank you Thomas !


To remove the Position Dots

DXP Preferences > Schematic > Graphical Editing > uncheck 'Mark Manual Parameters'

That's It !


Thursday, February 25, 2021

A365 BOM Templates

 Local BOM Templates are stored at: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Altium\AD20

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That' it !

Monday, January 18, 2021

Altium 365, Git and DBLIB libraries

YouTube: Git Parts for Altium Workflow

My preferred workflow for remote collaboration is Altium 365, TortoiseGit and DBLIB libraries.

Contact me at Parts for a demo of using Altium 365 with DBLib Libraries.

That's it !

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Amazon RDS - Remote Hosted MySQL Database Libraries and Altium 365

Dispersed teams working remotely can easily collaborate using Altium 365 and a MySQL Database Library hosted on Amazon RDS for their circuit board design projects.

A robust remote library solution can easily be created by using an Altium 365 Git based project to share symbols and footprints and an Amazon RDS MySQL database for the parametric data.

"MySQL is the world's most popular open source relational database and Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy scalable MySQL servers in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity.

Amazon RDS for MySQL frees you up to focus on application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks including backups, software patching, monitoring, scaling and replication.

Amazon RDS supports MySQL Community Edition versions 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0 which means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today can be used with Amazon RDS."

Source link: Amazon RDS for MySQL – Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Contact Parts for a Free demo of a MySQL database library for Altium hosted on Amazon.

That's it !