Sunday, October 5, 2014

Parts Frontend Basics

The New Parts Frontend (11/10/2018 )

Added Octopart Search for Mfr Part Numbers.
Updated Supplier Search for Digi-key and Mouser

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The Parts application was designed to efficiently maintain Altium Database Libraries.

Shortcut Keys:

Ctrl + Home Jump to the First Record
Ctrl + End  Jump to the Last Record
Tab Forward to Next Field
Shift + Tab Back to Previous Field


Parts has standard Window's application commands like:

Ctrl + A               Select All Records.
Ctrl + C               Copy.
Ctrl + V               Paste.
Ctrl + F               Find and Replace.
Ctrl + X               Cut (Delete).

Ctrl + Z               Undo Changes.

When Frontend in the locked state the records are in a view only mode. 

Toggle the Lock/Unlock button to switch between the view only and edit modes.

At the upper left side of the main window are the five most frequently used commands.

New, Make Like, Save, Lock and Delete


User Tips are shown on the status bar at bottom of the main window.




That's It !

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