Seawolf-Libraries

A collection of component libraries used in club PCB projects.

Installing IntLibs

• Download repo as a zip or clone it to C:\Users\Public\Documents\Altium\Projects. DO NOT CLONE TO AD19, AD20, AD21, etc subdirectories! Just clone it to the projects folder.
• Double click each IntLib file you want to install. When prompted choose install not extract sources.
• The libraries will then be listed in the Components panel
• Libraries can be updated the same way. Either pull the repository (if cloned) or download a newer zip and double click and install each IntLib file to update.

Adding Parts to URC_Lib

• Clone this repository to C:\Users\Public\Documents\Altium\Projects. Note that Documents may be shown as Public Documents in file explorer
• DO NOT CLONE TO AD19, AD20, AD21, etc subdirectories! Just clone it to the projects folder
• Double click the URC_Lib.IntLib file to open it. When prompted by altium choose Extract Sources this will create a folder called URC_Lib. This folder will contain the extracted URC_Lib.SchLib and URC_Lib.PcbLib files.
• To add a new part (not copy from a downloaded library)
  • Create a symbol in the URC_Lib.SchLib file. Give it the name of the part.
  • Create a footprint in the URC_Lib.PcbLib file. Give it the name of the part (or in some cases the name of the package type could be more appropriate).
  • Add a footprint to the symbol in the URC_Lib.SchLib. Browse in the URC_Lib.PcbLib
• To add a part from a downloaded library follow the same steps as above, but instead of creating new symbols / footprints copy / paste from the downloaded library's SchLib and PcbLib files. When the symbol is copied it will reference the footprint in the wrong PcbLib file so after copying both symbol and footprint go back and remove the footprint from the symbol, then add the correct one from URC_Lib.PcbLib.