What Makes Parts Different ?

The Parts Frontend is optimized for speed. Parts is Blazing Fast !

Parts can be used to quickly create a Microsoft Access or MySQL Database Library for Altium. 

Parts includes optional user defined AI Chats for component searches.

Parts can also be used to cleanup libraries before importing to Altium 365 Managed Components.

It takes less than 5 minutes to download and start placing parts from the Parts DBLib library. See Getting Started.

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When you download Parts you get a fully functional Altium DBLIB database library for Free.

An optional (not required) Frontend application is available for users that are looking for a turn-key solution with a user friendly interface. 

The Parts Frontend application supports DBLIB libraries in Altium.

Using Parts you can quickly enter parametric data into your library.

The WorkFlow for creating components using Parts is very efficient.

Trim and Clean removes extra white spaces and formatting characters in the database.

Option to use Preferred Mfr and Supplier names.

Parts simplifies Backing up and Compacting the database. 

Easy Migration to MySQL with 100% compatibility to the Parts Access database. 

Parts includes Export to Excel and Import from Excel with field (parameter) mapping.

Parts has Configuration options that support a variety of customer requested features.

Make Like and Drag and Drop makes creating similar components simple and fast.

Download Parts and see how Parts can simplify your library maintenance.

To request technical support or a demo use the Contact Parts page.

No IT department support is required for getting started with Access. Users only need read and write permissions to a shared folder on a local or network drive. User permissions to the database can be controlled using folder permissions.

Parts Supports Multiple Users

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Request Support:

Contact Parts for technical support or a Free online demonstration.

That's It !

Configure and Distribute Parts

Configure the Parts application

The Parts librarian can easily configure and distribute the Parts Frontend.

Use the Frontend application to create and save the configured application.

Then Zip up and distribute the configured Parts_Frontend to your users.

Zip up the Parts_Frontend file and place the Zipped file in a shared network drive folder.

Instruct users to copy the zip file and extract the Part_Frontend file in a folder on their local C:\ drive.

Notes:

If users have Access 2010 or higher installed on their machine they can run the Parts_Frontend.accde.

If the users do NOT have Access 2010 or higher on their computer they can install the free Microsoft Access runtime and run the Parts Frontend.

Steps for Upgrading to the latest version of the Part Frontend:

Save a copy of your existing Parts Frontend in the event you want to roll back to the older version.

Download and Drop the latest Parts_Frontend in the same folder where your previous version of the Frontend was installed.

Place the Zipped and Configured Parts_Frontend file in a shared network drive folder.

To keep the users on the same version of the Parts Frontend, instruct users to copy and extract the zipped Parts_Frontend file to a folder on their local C:\ drive.

Related Link: Moving and Sharing Parts

That's it !

Export to Excel

To Export the Entire Parts Database > Select Tools > Export

Choose Options (Not Required) > Then Export

Checking Acquire Models will copy Symbol and Footprint files.

The Acquired Models folder will be created in the same folder as the Exported data.

To Export Filtered Records > Select Filter > Export.

Tip: 

To Prevent overwriting the ID Field (Primary Key) you may want to delete the ID column in the exported Excel workbook if you are planning to merge or append the exported data with another Parts compatible database.

That's it !