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All I want is a resistor....

Sparkylabs

I am a bit baffled by the total lack of basics. I can install all sorts of manufacturer specific libraries but if I want a resistor, or capacitor of other generic part I need to create it from scratch ? As CS is supplied by Farnell why is there not a basic library of what they supply available ?

 

The whole library part of CS seems to be a joke, and no I have no interest in the vault, it is impossible to search very hard and slow to use and not available if I am off line. Many parts are missing from the vault, there is a multicomp section (yes farnells own brand) bit it has just one part in it............ am I missing something big or did i just waste £805?

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  • To add insult to injury farnell still supply eagle parts libraries that can't be opened in CS, is farnell sure it wanted to sell eagle off ? they seem desperate to get all those customers back now at my expense.

  • in reply to Sparkylabs

    I feel your pain, I'm just coming into CS from Eagle and was surprised at the lack of basic components built-in and how painful the vault is to use (In my case that's partly down to my own lack of understanding).

     

    I suspect that Farnell will favour putting their libraries directly into the vault rather that publishing them separately as the have been with Eagle image

     

    The latest CS 1.4 can however import Eagle libraries under file>import

  • in reply to johnmosborneuk

    Hi John. Not sure if you are aware but in addition to the online Vault a vast collection of component libraries are available from the Altium website. Although not as convenient to access as the online Vault components these other libraries can be downloaded and components extracted and modified locally. This is not well documented for new users so please follow the instructions below.

     

    1. Visit https://designcontent.live.altium.com/#UnifiedComponents.
    2. Login with your Altium Live account
    3. If you need to register go ahead, ideally allow cookies in your browser so that you don't need to register each visit.
    4. Browse the available libraries and download to your local drive.
    5. Unzip the library into a suitable folder on your computer.
    6. Drag the *.IntLib file onto CircuitStudio and choose Extract Sources
    7. The Projects panel will show a LibPkg project containing a SchLib and PcbLib file (these files will also be created on your local drive).

     

    These library components are local to your computer and can be used in your designs, copied into your own custom libraries and modified as needed.

  • in reply to e14softwareuk

    That's good to know, thanks image

     

    Creating my own libraries in CS seems a lot easier than Eagle too image

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