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Vault population?

rszemeti

Hi,

 

My main incentive in moving over to CircuitStudio is improved part management ... I was interested in the idea of the "vault" and easy access to 30,000 professional symbols, widely used by the Altium community.

 

Perhaps I am missing something obvious, but the Vault seems rather ... bare?  For example in NXP (who have a huge range of power semis) there is 1 transistor listed ... TI have one single DSP .... AVX have just 4 capacitors ... I was hoping for a little more comprehensive coverage.  Is the Vault a work in progress and still early days, or am I missing something obvious and just need to click a button or add a URL to gain the rest of the vault content?

 

I did find some libraries on the "Altium Live" site,  unfortunately I am unable to access them, as when I click it says "Login to download" .. I login and it says "Insufficient privileges to access this area" or something similar ... "click here to register" .... so I click to register and it says "that email address is already in use" ... which I know it is, as I just logged in with it.   ...

  • in reply to clem57

    Umm I thought that was for some sort of locally hosted vault that you ran for users of Designer within a larger organisation, to host your company-specific parts across a number of engineers? The impression I got from the CircuitStudio blurb was that it had access to a collection/vault pre loaded with a good array of devices?

     

    From the front page of CircuitStudio.com ..

     

    "Unlimited Design Content Access

     

    Easily find specialized parts for your design with unlimited access to over 350,000 components in the CircuitStudio Content Library."

     

  • in reply to Former Member

    Must check all the fine print:

    Vault components for use in your CircuitStudio designs are available from the Altium Content Vault. To connect to the vault, simply access the Data Management – Vaults page of the Preferences dialog (File » System Preferences), and click the Add Altium Content Vault button. Provided you have a licensed instance of CircuitStudio, a connection to the vault will be made instantly. This connection enables you to access and place content from the Altium Content Vault directly into your designs, through the Vaults panel (File » Vault Explorer). Note that CircuitStudio caters for the use of vault-based components in designs, but does not permit the creation, release, or modification of such components. In other words, data from the Altium Content Vault is strictly for consumption only.

  • in reply to clem57

    Still no clearer.

     

    I have a valid CircuitStudio trial license.

     

    I have the "vaults" panel, it has connected  ...

     

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    Bu there seems to be precious little actual content in the vault, I only checked a few manufacturers who I am familiar with but here's what I have for example in NXP ...

     

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    One, single solitary bipolar transistor, yet NXP have hundreds ... similarly their MOSFETs ... (NXP have hundreds of widely used MOSFETS) .. and there is ... 1 in the vault ..

     

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    Renesas .. 1 solitary IGBT:

     

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    TI DSP's .. same story ... where are the "350,000" components spoken of?  I am assuming I still have not fully understood how this content works, becuase there is nothing like 350,000 devices in this vault.

     

    Perhaps the "350,000" refers to some other, additional content? Not the vault?  If so, what is it and where is it?

  • Hi Robin,

     

    I will see if I can get an answer from the developers.

     

    Tony

  • I had the exact same problem when I first started Circuit Studio.  I believe it is actually a poor instantiation of the vault window.  If you look closely at the vault window and look at the rectangular box that says "Standard MOSFETS" in one of your examples, you need to use your mouse to pull down the small grey bar at the bottom of that rectangle to expand that viewer.  Then you will see many components in Standard MOSFETS.

  • in reply to Former Member

    This was my post above...  you will notice that when you pull the box down, that configuration of the Vault window will stay in memory so you don't have to pull it down each time you open the vault.  It seems to be just the way the software comes standard.  Hope this solves your problem.

  • in reply to jstrautman

    Yep, it turns out the component list as standard is minimised so that it can't be seen, with no real indication that it is there ...

     

    What is needed I guess is a minimum height setting on that scroll pane, to stop it minimising to nothing as standard.

     

    I did play with CircuitStudio but in the end ran out of patience/time .. I normally use Eagle and it is relatively quick to draw a circuit diagram, select (or make) parts and then place them on the board ... I was having some difficulty with CircuitStudio to get that far, perhaps I need to watch a tutorial someday, but I think I have run out of trial period, so it may have to wait until I have some time in the summer.

  • From the developers:

     

    Please ask them to apply for an AltiumLive account on the www.altium.com website. This is free and allows them to go to a library and click the Download icon to download the library.

     

    The library downloads within a zip archive, so the IntLib file must be unzipped before use in CircuitStudio.

  • in reply to e14softwareteam

    Hi,

     

    As mentioned, what you suggest is not possible.  I already have a registration on that site, if I try to register, it tells me my email address is already in use, which is correct, it is .. so I log in and I get:

     

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    It sends me to the registration page, which says "by clicking submit ... etc" ... and there is no "submit" button ...

     

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    It is simply not possible ...