Regards and remember: a bad EE is a good conductor. I would like to hear your thoughts on my ideas and how you address this issue.
I understand this conclusion might not be the same in a company with many projects in parallel and many components to be created (even though that would be surprising given the available yearly plan price tags and a EE salary). I have browsed this subreddit on the topic and most of the times I have seen people arguing that you just have to know how to create your components, but given that we don't have the experience and that knowledge requires time and money, I feel that buying them to an external component creator is extremely cheap given the price tags nowadays (they even create non available components for 5$) and thus the optimal solution. Is there any other option I'm not aware of?Ĭonsidering the options that I have mentioned, in case that Altium's Component Wizard is not prone to errors, it would be the option to go for the packages included in the applet, while less standard components like maybe connectors or a fancy LM3886 would be acquired from PCB footprint expert. Here I would be assuming the process once you purchase a part is very straightforward, has anyone used it and maybe is able to tell how many minutes it takes to have a component in the sch? I assume all the components from this company have a standardized format and reviewed components leading to a small risk. Here I have seen that they do have most of the ICs I checked (I still have to check whether they have a good variety of passive components) and the price sounds acceptable (1$/part on demand or 100 parts per month at 120$/year).
I checked it and they appear to be a very friendly and nice community but I have tried some common part numbers, like some OPAM from TI and the part was not included in the library.įrom a paid service like PCB Footprint Expert. In their website they state for every part whether it has been checked or not, but I wonder whether it is reliable or prone to errors.įrom kinda less free libraries like Celestial altium library. Here the concern would be to have errors in the parts due to a variety of reasons. Has anyone had any manufacturing issues with fp created like this? Also, what density do you select when using this feature?įrom free libraries like snapeda. A lot of the information can be found from the part's datasheet, however I wonder how much can you rely on the default parameters which are not explicitly stated in the datasheet, like some of the tolerances. I have been analysing the options for components in Altium:įrom scratch without any support - requiring an expertise which I don't have plus I suspect this would be fairly slower I'm the only EE and there are't any plans on hiring people specialized on component creation. Hi, I'm to set the component creation workflow at a small company.
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