This is the kind of problem that arises when you rely on third party manufacturers to create your libraries. B's because the pads are slightly larger. A's footprint but it won't fit between Manf. While this may be fine for making a PCB, it's annoying when (for example) you can run a track between the pads of Manf. The pads will be a different size, the silks won't be the same, etc. One of the reasons is the footprint for (say) a TI 74HC00 will be different from the same part from another manufacturer. I very seldom use parts from the Altium libraries exactly as they come. Not to misunderstand.Altium is not a complete pile of dung!.but it sure smells like it often! Have Altium 09 on a computer side by side with a computer with PCAD5 (dos 640k with dos EMS mem mgr).altium crashed 4 times in one day last week and the PACD5 (dos) has not crashed that I can remember.ironically the same pcb was on both machines in pcb layout :PĪltium is more about marketing and less about stability and productivity IMHO.īottom line going forward for Altium users, if you want a part for Altium you better start making it yourself! Just look at all the crap that Altium loads when started that has nothing to do with the task at hand but they load it "just in case" you use that other "bloatware" (not pcb/sch tasks)Īs far as having one part made and having them all as mentioned in another post, while the footprint may be the same the pin i/o may well be different thus Altium might cough up warnings and/or errors depending on how they are defined. When asked about why the change?.the Altium sales mgr indicated they were out of memory! and the new release was also going to have a new memory mgr.this might help explain the frequent crashes and freezes of previous releases.
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That's is but just ONE of the reasons did not upgrade to Altium 10 besides it being about a year late with an entirely new database structure (translate = unproven & probably unstable)! Ignoramus wrote: I had heard a rumor that Altium are not going to make new libraries but will rather allow chip manufacturers to prepare component libraries instead.Ī Altium sales manager told me the same thing during a presentation.they are going to let ("hope") the component mfg's do it because they are not going to continue making libraries!
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