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This document outlines the general guidelines for creating new components and adding them to Waterloo Reality Labs’ Altium 365 component library. Please follow all of guidelines below, as a clean, organized, and concise component library will serve you and other team members well!
Selecting the Waterloo Reality Labs Altium 365 cloud workspace from the dropdown menu in Altium Designer.
As shown in the above image, make sure you are connected to the Waterloo Reality Labs Altium 365 workspace before beginning.
Generally, leave the DigiKey part name or Manufacturer Part Number as the name of the part.
Specific letters (like U, R, C, etc.) are used as a reference designators to give a specific reference to a component in your schematic. “U” is specifically used for integrated circuits. You can find the appropriate reference designator for all types of components here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_designator
We leave a “?” instead of manually numbering the component, as Altium has a function to automatically number all of your components at the end of your design phase.
In the parameter section, you will want to leave common, important part characteristics. For a resistor, that should look like:
This makes it easy to have relevant parameters visible on the schematic. That would look something like this:
Common relevant parameters can be easily made visible by clicking the eye icon on the parameter.