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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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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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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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