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Why does CS treat my imported libraries like second class citizens?

blondguy
blondguy over 7 years ago

All of the libraries that Altium provides makes the components out of these cute little yellow rectangles with the 'default' font (font & size unknown) yet any library I import uses lines to create a box and sets all text to times roman 8 point font.  The result is a schematic that looks like a hodge podge of bits and pieces.

 

So far the only solution I've found is to open up all of imported libraries and edit each and every component, or open the Altium libraries as source and copy them into a new library and edit each and every component.  Either way thats a whole bunch of editing that would be eliminated if the importer simply treated imports that same as native libraries.

 

Is there something I'm missing that lets me specify some of this at import?  Is there a magical command that would let me 'format' a schematic after the fact?  Not really appealing, I'ld rather everything go onto the schematic formatted the same, but at this point I'll take whatever I can get.

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    blondguy over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk +1
    But the source does not specify a font so the importer is picking one. As far as I can see it is always picking Times Roman 8. My problem is that CS then uses Time Roman 10 as its default font when creating…
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    0 e14softwareuk over 7 years ago

    It's not that the importer is doing anything special - it is taking the source library and translating into Altium format. If the source was drawn using given fonts and lines then that's how it generally appears after translation. There is no other option than to edit the library after importing or try finding the components at https://designcontent.live.altium.com/ .

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    0 e14softwareuk over 7 years ago

    It's not that the importer is doing anything special - it is taking the source library and translating into Altium format. If the source was drawn using given fonts and lines then that's how it generally appears after translation. There is no other option than to edit the library after importing or try finding the components at https://designcontent.live.altium.com/ .

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    0 blondguy over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk

    But the source does not specify a font so the importer is picking one.  As far as I can see it is always picking Times Roman 8.  My problem is that CS then uses Time Roman 10 as its default font when creating new components.  The importer is pretty cool but why would they pick a different default font(?????) it just makes a ton of extra busy work.

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