Without effective management of those components, there would be no ability to reuse them in other, new designs. After all, without components, there would be no designs. Within the various offerings of the software – from the DOS days to present day with Altium Designer – management of components used in a design has always, and continues to be, a fundamental element of the software. Historical Component Management in Altium Design SolutionsĪltium has been providing innovative, leading edge design solutions for many years. This paper takes a look at how Altium solves this problem through its Unified Component model, and a new approach to component management that harnesses the power of this model. Having a single component that models all the different aspects of the object is also critical for enabling a designer to maintain a truly holistic view of the design. Modeling all these different aspects of the object is fundamental to linking together the different parts of the design process into a single unified whole. However, to seamlessly fit the process of electronics design into the encapsulating product development process as a whole, this model needs to evolve – extending to cover other aspects including other design processes, in particular MCAD and Industrial Design, as well as business processes – such as procurement and manufacturing – that intersect with the product development process. The traditional model of a design component faithfully extends across all aspects of the electronics design process. Making it possible to now truly capture the concept of parts equivalence and leverage the engineering intelligence behind the decisions experienced engineers make every day. It’s through a series of ‘Part Choices’ that the engineering component can be mapped to one or even multiple manufacturer or vendor parts. Altium Designer introduces a new, higher level model of the component object, separating the engineering part from the manufacturer or vendor parts.
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