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Altium Variants In Bill Of Materials
Is there any way in Altium to display/combine the different Variant configurations in a single Excel sheet exported from the Bill of Materials, e.g. have the different variant configurations displayed ...
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Flexible PCB design suggestion
I'm currently learning to design a PCB. For this board, I want to sense the current in two different ways (using either analog or digital current sensors). Each sensor requires a current sense ...
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Recreating Arduino UNO - PCB design (How are the components connected?)
I'm trying to recreate the Arduino UNO in order to be good at PCB design via EasyEDA or Altium. I have recreated the Arduino Uno schematic and design but it is hard for me to figure out few things (...
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Footprint to accomodate chips with different pin count
I am working on a PCB that (among other things) accomodates an MCU which is available either in a SOIC-14 or SOIC-16 package. Both packages are pin-compatible, the SOIC-14 is simply shorter to one ...
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Micro USB B Pick-n-Place info
Altium Designer exports Pick-n-Place coordinates for a micro USB-B connector as geometric center of signal layers (top and bottom) area (other layers do not affect the coordinates) (a yellow mark on ...
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Altium Database and Footprint density
I am currently trying to use the database in Altium, but I have one big question:
I was expecting to get one database entry per resistor value. But, for a single 100k 0805 resistor (for example), ...
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How to generate Assembly drawing in Altium
How to generate Assembly drawing with designators inside the boxes like this in Altium? Is it by placing designators (silkscreens) inside manually? I guess not.
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pick and place cannot read LCC module
The assembly house has a P&P machine (Yamaha i-pulse M4S) and the export file is from Altium.
All components are read from the machine fine except an LCC gsm module MG323-b which has a particular ...
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What is the proper zero orientation for a SMT LED?
What is the proper zero orientation for a SMT LED?
According to screaming circuits and IPC-7351, the cathode should be on the left for a molded diode. HOWEVER, when I use Altium's component wizard to ...
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