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NER’s sponsorship contract with Altium includes all of Altium 365 Professional, including their integrated cloud-based data management system. This page will elaborate on how users can find and access data.

CONTENTS

Normal Access

These are the panels typically used when working on schematics and layout, after components have already been added to the library. These panels are simplified for quick and simple access.

Projects Panel

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Components Panel

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The Explorer

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.

The Explorer should really only be needed when creating new components. During normal schematic design and layout the normal access panels should be sufficient.

Library Health

See image above.

This “folder” searches the component library for all issues with components. The color scheme identifies severity of the issue.

The first column, “Supply Chain”, reports how easily components can be acquired. The second, “Component Details”, reports on errors made when creating and organizing components. The third, “Duplicates”, reports on duplicate components. The fourth, “Models”, reports on components that use bad footprints or symbols (typically outdated or deleted).

Generally, you can figure out what each category does by just reading the description.

 More Info!

Supply Chain

We 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 Details

These are all important categories.

Duplicates

These are all important categories.

Models

These are all important categories.

Further Reading

Altium 365 - Getting Started Guide | Library Health Dashboard

Altium 365 User Manual | Library Health Dashboard

Part Requests

This 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

We also don’t use this either.

Components

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).

 More (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} page.

Managed Content

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

We don’t use these.

Mechatronic 3D Models

This 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.

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.

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