In this article, I want to show you how you can leverage some of the tools in Altium to create your own symbols quickly. People are often surprised when I tell them it only takes a few minutes to make a schematic symbol using Altium, even if the part has a high pin count. Maybe it's worth spending some time to play with it later but after previous experiences with Altium I'm not immediately confident that it's going to work as well as they make it look.My open-source Altium component library contains hundreds of schematic symbols, supplying over 100,000 components for use. Being able to add just a supplier link to an existing part would be great but I get no right click options on the supplier part numbers. It looks like a cool feature but holy shit I do NOT want it to add all ten thousand parameters that all of those suppliers have to my database! It looks like you can filter/translate parameters in the Parts Providers section of settings but it looks like it might be a huge pain. I didn't know you could use the manufacturer part search to import components like that-I've had the same DBLib since before they added that part search and have been managing it manually ever since. What happens when you try? Where do you get stuck? In this case it seems like the problem may actually be that Altium can't write to an Excel file via the database link as dunkemhigh says, so you may not be able to do what you want without switching to access or something else. So you're trying to follow that video, great. You haven't actually answered these questions.
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