Hi-
I was spoiled as an electrical engineer, we had every Altium Library imaginable at our disposal. Now that I’m gainfully unemployed (this sucks) things are different and I’m wondering:
Could anyone lend me their Altium libraries, or is there a resource online for such a thing? The libraries on the website seem to already come with the software.
It’s really surprising that Altium doesn’t come with the standard SMD libraries like SON, 0503, 0402, etc. etc.
Thank you so much in advance,
Kosta
I’m an eagle user, but the best advice ever given to me was to create my own parts for the most part.
I’ve found so many errors in STOCK eagle lib parts that it’s embarrassing.
I’ll second that! The non-stock libraries are even worse. My experience has been that the uploaded libraries on the cadsoft site contain footprints incorrectly copied from other libraries that were never made into an actual, functioning board. Making your own library(s) is the only way to know that it was done correctly.
It takes less time to use a library, but if you send out for the board and the board you get back is wrong, it likely would have been faster to create the parts yourself.
Ronald Reagan said it best - Trust but Verify
I recently found a footprint calculator.
pcbmatrix.com it’s the LP Calculator.
i’d be keen on this as well
my current project has so many sensors I have to make footprints for.
Altium has a very powerful footprint wizard, which makes it ridiculously easy to generate footprints for parts yourself, that’s what I tend to do.
If you want, shoot me a PM, and I’ll see if I can dig up some libraries with generic components that I’ve created and can send you… (Unfortunately, I can’t send you any of my work ones, they’d frown on that.)
(edit: oops, just noticed the original date this was posted…)