Beyond Altium Designer Symbol Centric Libraries – A Primer on External Tools for Library Management

One of the greatest banes of PCB design is the maintenance of component libraries.  There are over 1 billion electrical components on the market according to SiliconExpert.  Although there are numerous ways of obtaining components, each company must organize their components to fit their needs and workflow.

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Dealing with ODBC 32/64-bit Database Compatibility Issues in Altium Designer

With the 64-bit Altium Designer Version 18 release, there may be some compatibility issues that arise when installing a database library. Though this document focuses on Microsoft Access, the same concept is true for any type of database.

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