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The explorer panel is the complete view of all assets in the cloud. This view allows for more direct control and organization, but can be more confusing.
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The Explorer should really only be needed when creating new components. During normal schematic design and layout the normal access panels should be sufficient. |
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Library Health
See image above.
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Supply ChainWe primarily just care about “No Defined Part Choices” as this is required to allow Altium ActiveBOMs to work. The other two errors have to do with acquisition of parts, which is more applicable when making boards in massive volumes, which we do not do. Component DetailsThese are all important categories. DuplicatesThese are all important categories. ModelsThese are all important categories. Further ReadingAltium 365 - Getting Started Guide | Library Health Dashboard |
Part Requests
aaaThis is used by larger organizations to allow engineers to request parts and have full-time librarians create the components for them. We don’t do this, so this should look like an empty folder.
Auto-Generated Components
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Components
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Managed Content
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Components
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This folder contains all complete components within our vault. The objects accessed here are identical to those of the “Components” panel, just with a different organization system (folder-based instead of tag-based).
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Components in Altium consist of an association of a symbol, a footprint, a MPN, SPNs, parameters, and more. Symbols and footprints are stored in our “Managed Content” and other details (such as part numbers and parameters) are filled in manually upon component creation. These all then maintain references, so updates to the source footprint or symbol files will propagate to the component on next revision. More info on the component creation process can be found in the {@matt add the linko} page. |
Managed Content
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Managed content is the core of our online Altium Vault. Most importantly, it includes 3D Models, Footprints, and Symbols which makes up our components. Additionally, it contains Templates (project, component, etc) and Design Reuse Blocks.
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Managed Flows Attachments
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Mechatronic 3D Models
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Projects
aaaThis folder compiles all 3D models that are stored in the vault. We currently have no use for this view/folder.
Projects
As the name implies, projects are stored in this folder.
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Generally projects are sorted by vehicle (NER17, NER22, etc). We additionally have a folder for “External” projects. This contains capstone projects, Baja projects, and other personal projects.