The following terminology is used to distinguish elements within the PCB domain: Altium Designer includes capabilities that allow designers to model both the footprint (land pattern) of the component as well as its 3D physical shape. In the past, items within a PCB Library have been generically referred to as Footprints, however this term is no longer strictly correct in the present-day context. PCB Domain Terminologyīefore taking a look at the process of releasing a PCB 2D/3D component model, it is worth taking a moment to become familiar with the related terminology involved. įor more information about creating a component Footprint, see the Creating the PCB Footprint page. Once a Footprint Item has been created (and data released into a revision of it), and its lifecycle state set to a level that the organization views as ready for use at the design level, it can be reused in the creation of one or more vault components. Such Items are created directly within the target vault. As such, before you can delve into the process of defining and releasing vault components, you must first ensure that all the domain models themselves have been created and released.Īltium Designer, in conjunction with Altium Vault, caters for the ability to create and manage Footprint Items in an Altium Vault. These links are specified as part of the source component definition - from which the released Component Item is generated. In terms of its representation in the various domains, a vault component doesn't contain the domain models themselves, but rather links to these models. A 'bucket' into which all domain models and parametric information is stored. It could therefore be thought of as a container in this respect.
Batch Releasing File-based PCB Librariesįrom a designer's perspective, a vault component (Component Item) gathers together all information needed to represent that component across all design domains, within a single entity.
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