Altium - Quick way to create symbols with many pins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2019
- Video explains how you can copy pin names from datasheet in insert them into your schematic symbol.
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Oh my god, this is amazing. I always used to do it with Nitro Pro, export table to excel and import it in altium, but this looks a lot better
Tip from me: In order to get every pin on grid, select them all and do ctrl+shift+d. This will snap everything to the current grid. It works in the PCB and schematic as well.
Great Video !
Thanks a lot .. also there is an option to align all the pins to the grid with just click
as i remember > Edit > align > align to grid
Great tip!
*Edit
Been using Altium for years and while I use the symbol wizard all the time I never knew you could just copy and paste the pin names from the datasheet. Very cool. Thanks Robert!
Perfect timing. Thanks.
Was not aware of the Alt function in a PDF.
Alt-left mouse button drag is a standard Windows combination for rectangular window select. It is supported not only in Adobe Acrobat but in other applications like Microsoft Word, Notepad++, Visual Studio and great many others
I always move the Power pin and clock in a group together so it is easy to wire and do not forget, also all input pin that is not used in the schematic setting to high or low so electric noise do not interfere with the chip or oscillate. Texas instrument has made a great video about the last topic "Engineer It - How to terminate an unused op amp" apply to all analog IC :)
Amazing. Thank you Robert.It's so helpful.
Excelent!!! Very useful, always I learn something new from you.
Great tip. I'll definitely be using this one!
You are a LEGEND!
Big thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thank! Great tip
Damn, i wish quartus pin planner would have a feature like this haha. Great tip!
Thanks for the tip.
Quite helpful for package with larger pin count.
Very handy, i used the sch list the same way, works like a charm.. But never used the wizard before.. Well give it a go.. Thanks Robert
Thank you Paul.
Thank you!
Thanks! Great video
You can also use CTRL+SHIFT+V to past more than one column, it recognizes CSV, TSV etc, copying data from excell also supported. Input/output/passive also can be inserted but need to be written exactly same as in altium so I usually use Excell to prepare data.
Thanks a lot! Saved me half an hour or more
I am happy it helped :)
Legend! this is so usefull. Thanks for shareing.
Excellent...😍😍😍
Good, thanks a lot!!
Wow it's a nice video it's very useful for as thanks lot.
Could you create a tutorial where you create a symbol of more than 1000 pin FPGA device?
Thank you
Thank you ;)
Thanks
You can also use Edit > Align > Align to Grid in the Schlib editor. I've been doing variations of this PDF Import method for about 20 years. Back in the Protel days we'd use an ASCII schematic symbol template in a text editor and just increment the pin positions in something like Excel. One of the OpenBSD kernel coders (Jason Wright) wrote a simple C program that automates it.
Here's the template - the line to duplicate is
Pin 0 0 4 0 1 1 10 0 0 2 0 'pinname' '1' :
Protel for Windows - Schematic Library Editor Ascii File Version 1.2 - 2.0
1
Organization
0 0
End
[Font_Table]
1
10 0 0 0 0 0 Times New Roman
EndFont
Library 0 9 0 1 0 0 15269887 1 10 1 10 1000 800 0 0
1
Component
1
1
U?
COMPNAME
Part
40 40
Pin 0 0 4 0 1 1 10 0 0 2 0 'pinname' '1'
EndNormalPart
EndDeMorganPart
EndIEEEPart
EndComponent
EndLibrary
Library Version 2.0
Component
COMPNAME
Part Field 1
Part Field 2
Part Field 3
Part Field 4
Part Field 5
Part Field 6
Part Field 7
Part Field 8
Part Field 9
Part Field 10
Part Field 11
Part Field 12
Part Field 13
Part Field 14
Part Field 15
Part Field 16
EndComponent
EndLibrary
Although personally I usually ask companies for their Schematic Library file (they always have either Altium or OrCAD, etc) if I couldn't find them online. Once at hand, the import is rather easy...
Dear Robert, first of all many thanks for all efforts you spent to teach all in all your videos & lectures, concerning this video, I'm running on ALTIUM DESIGNER 16 & 19, I can't find symbol design in the tools menu as you stated, can you guide me, many thanks again
Thank you E M Z. Are you in library? Also, I am not sure in what Altium version it was introduced.
@@RobertFeranec many thanks I got it.
Hi robert , many thanks for the tip. but i cant find Symbol design in schematic library can u guide me ?
Do you mean Symbol wizard? I am not sure in what Altium version it was introduced - some old Altiums may not have the feature.
Hi Robert Feranec
This is very useful to same time,
i m stuck in one command so just i explain you, i have rout one net with 0.5mm track the net name is 5V after routing i have thinking to increase width of this trace because its power track so i place polygon on same track and i also assign the net name of 5V after that its getting isolate but i assign same net i also tick on copper pour on same net if possible please make short video for that issue
Thanks you
Check the polygon properties, look for "Pour over same net objects"
Thank you again for a fine video. But I find it hard to believe why Altium are not able to hit the grid correct. This must be a bug.
I would like to see a video from you using the cloud 365 as component library. Keep up the good work.
I am testing 365, if it is interesting I will make a video about it. PS: See Mohamed Hesham's comment about aligning the pins. Erik, thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you, in altium 17 , I go to supplier search and import parameters in to the new part, but now I don’t see the function, how can I do it in altium 19?
I think it is not available in Altium 17. I also have version 17 and unfortunately I miss this opportunity.
sir i kept the symbols, footprints in different directories, when importing symbols to PCB environment ITS showing errors, not coming all components in PCB board, please help how to clear the errors..
I'm adding 3d body for components footprints , then I'm press 3 buttom 3d body doesn't showing silk layer only show how to fix
How do you insert the central pin?
good question no one talk about this in comments section 👍
HELLO SIR I COULD NOT FOUND SYMBOL WIZERD IN TOOLS I WAS CHECKED IN
SCHDOC AND SCHLIB
And then there are some manufacturers that disable copy&paste on their datasheets (facepalm). Those companies should bankrupt instantly!
Edit the PDF in nitro PDF / PDF element & remove the feature
I would like to dislike this video( p.s i liked it)… why? becuse i needed this few years ago, when we worked on projects at my college as a students :) Thank you!
:D
Amazing. Thank you Robert.It's so helpful.