Saturday, October 11, 2014

Verify Libs

Librarian mode shown below




In the Designer mode only the currently Selected Record is verified.

The Librarian mode includes an option to Make Library Paths and Verify All Files in the Library.

Library references are used in *.PCBLib and *.SCHLib files to identify a specific symbol or footprint within a library.

Each symbol and footprint listed in the database is verified by reading the library files.

The user is alerted if either the file or reference is not found.

Verifying file paths and library references will ensure your parts are displayed in Altium's Components Panel.

Make Library Paths can be used to create relative Library Paths if a SchLib files exist in the symbols folder that have the same name as the Library Ref.

Make Library Report when enabled the User Defined Field "Lib Report" will be populated with messages if errors are detected while verifying the files

The Make Library Report can enabled in the Configuration Options.


 





Tip:

Single part library files have only one library part reference. Parts supports both single and multiple part library files. However single part libraries are highly recommended.

If all parts are in a single library file how will users be able to collaborate?

If a user opens a library with 1000 parts, then all 1000 parts would be in a locked while the library file is open making it very difficult to collaborate.

Single part files are your best choice for 
collaboration and library maintenance.

That's It !

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