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Navigating Altium
On Startup
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By default, on startup Altium will open the “Home” page. It has some links to trainings, articles, and surveys, none of which are particularly useful. Feel free to close it out by right clicking on the tab and clicking “Close”
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PlannedComponent is a local draft. This should be fairly uncommon as it is only shown when first creating a component. Once uploaded to the server, the component will automatically become a Draft DraftThe component is a work in progress. This is a common state as it encompass all stages of “working on a component”, and as mentioned above, all components will move into this state by default. From this state anyone can move components to Pending Review or to Obsolete. Explanations for these are below. Pending Review |
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The component is complete and ready for review. Once team members/project leads determine a component is fully complete (symbol, footprint, parameters, etc all added), the component is marked with this status to indicate to the EE heads that it is ready for review. A review wiIl then be completed according with the Component Review Checklist. From this state only EE heads can move the component to Reviewed, but anyone can move it back to Draft. ReviewedThe component has been approved by an EE head. At this stage the component is fully complete, confirmed as so (according to Component Review Checklist), and is ready for production! Users can use these components knowing that no further work is needed on the component before releasing a board with it. From this state anyone can move the component to Production, Draft, or Obsolete. ProductionThe component has been used in a production PCB and required no reworks to function. After a board is fully functional, all components used in the board (that didn’t require fixes) will be marked with this state. It serves as a 100% guarantee that future boards can use the component without issues or further reviews. From this state anyone can move the component back to Reviewed or Obsolete. ObsoleteThe component is effectively “deleted”. The reason for obsoletion rather than deletion is backwards compatibility. Marking something as obsolete tells engineers to no longer use the component (or at least that revision of it), while still allowing older projects to include the component. This way if we look back at boards that are a few seasons old they don’t have a bunch of missing parts. From this state anyone can move the component back to Draft. |
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