Friday, August 19, 2016

Parts Drag and Drop














Parts is optimized for speed, the application is up and running in 1 second on a fast PC.

Parts was developed by a professional Altium PCB designer who wanted an easier and faster way to create components.

If you are looking for a simple and fast way to create parts or you need to maintain Altium Database libraries, then take Parts for a test drive.


Notes: 

The Parts Drag and Drop feature supports Digi-Key and Mouser if the Country Locations are set to English Countries such as USA, Canada, United Kingdom or International (USD).


Digi-Key example




You may need to select Mouser International if you are outside of the United States.










You can select and drag parametric data from any web page to the Parts Frontend fields. 


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Make Like. Resistors, Capacitors or Inductors in 15 seconds or less.

Download Parts

That's it !

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Part Type Queries

Part Type Queries offers database library users another option for organizing Parts displayed in Altium's Components Panel.

In the Parts Access Backend Database

Queries can be added, for example . . .















Select Create > Query Design














Build the Query

























Or you can create Queries from the SQL View

Select Home > SQL View > Enter a SQL statement.

SELECT Parts.Part_Type, Parts.*
FROM Parts
WHERE (((Parts.Part_Type)="Resistor"));

Close and Save the Query as Resistors

Another SQL statement example for Capacitors

SELECT Parts.Part_Type, Parts.*
FROM Parts
WHERE (((Parts.Part_Type)="Capacitor"));

Another SQL statement example for Inductors

SELECT Parts.Part_Type, Parts.*
FROM Parts
WHERE (((Parts.Part_Type)="Inductor"));

Open and edit the Altium DBLib after the queries have been created in the database.

Select the new tables (actually queries)


And set the Single key lookup =  ID field



That's it !