![]() ![]() No need to locate & add the required library to then have access to the one footprint you require. Runs well when it just contains the generic footprints plus a few special ones you have added yourself. ADDED: Target 3001 have a great idea of running all components in one large library. ![]() I'm the same as you, preferring the DipTrace way of doing things, but Altium use their unified libraries as a selling point & a way to continually getting their customers to pay for another upgrade. You can select a different footprint "on the fly" when laying out your schematic & this is remembered all the way through to the pcb layout. You will notice in the latest version of DipTrace gives you a generic library containing (for instance) all the TOxxx through hole & SMD parts. By using this method you are guaranteed to also have the correct footprint. Altium expect you to specify a part from a particular manufacturer, search for that part in the extensive libraries using the full part number, select it & place it into your schematic. The approach that Altium has taken for many years now is to provide you with an extensive set of "unified libraries". If you don't do this & later invoke the command to update all components from the library, you will end up with the generic (standard) footprint for that schematic part for all your capacitors (& resistors). I have not watched the video but suspect it is because a different footprint was used for each capacitor (& each resistor). ![]()
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