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titleMore (unnecessary) info for people who are curious

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} Component Creation 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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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.

Revision States

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Extra information available on the https://nerdocs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NER/pages/153026566/Intro+to+Altium#Component-Workflow page

Everything in Altium has a revision state. This is particularly easy to see in the explorer, under the lifecycle tab.

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  1. Find the component (or other object) in the Explorer

  2. Right Click & Navigate to Operations > Change State

  3. Select action, and hit process!

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Bonus Notes

Children and parents can be selected within the state change window by right clicking.

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