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Own Vault for Companies

loxeras

Hello

 

We use Altium Circuit Studios in our company. Now we need a "Private Vault" or a shared library, that everyone can use and edit all the components we have. Now everyone has his own library but this resulted in a huge mess.

 

Is it Possible to build a own Vault or something like this?

 

Greetings

  • Hi Dario. CircuitStudio does not support private vaults only the online one. If you have a shared network drive then you should be able to have all engineers sharing centralised integrated libraries (*.intlib). Updating the libraries would probably be better handled by a librarian or at least in a controlled manner. The source files for the integrated library could be shared and allow one user at once to update and publish the results. You would also need a procedure in place so that once a component is created or updated the other engineers are made aware and can update their designs where appropriate.

  • If you use SVN (subversion) you could make available the library's for your co-workers. We use Tortoise SVN and this open-source software allow the user to lock the file that is edited (so another user can't edit while current edit is in progress). CS has embedded support for SVN so everybody will see in the Project Tab if the files are out-of-date.

  • in reply to e14softwareuk

    Hi Peter

     

    Thanks for the answer. I will look if i can find a working Librarian tool. Are there shared Vaults for the Normal Altium?

  • in reply to mars01

    Thanks for the answer. I looked ad it. Is it the Option "SVN Database Library" in Circuit Studios?

  • in reply to loxeras

    Altium Designer has full support for vaults but CircuitStudio does not - the only one it can access is the online Altium provided vault. Both Altium Designer and CircuitStudio can access library files (intlib, schlib, pcblib) so if you are needing to share between the two packages then library files will be the way to go.

  • in reply to loxeras

    I don't believe CS supports these.

  • in reply to e14softwareuk

    As a slightly-middle-finger-ish gesture, right-clicking a .LibPkg project shows SVN Database Library Maker wizard. This is a tool that enables one to create an SVN-backed Database Library. I assume it works well, as indeed, it seems CS can't use it...