It will detect your Altium Designer installation location and automatically make itself available to Altium Designer. InstallationĪligni Connector for Altium Designer is installed directly into Windows like many other applications. Combined, these two roles create a closed loop between your PLM database and CAD activities. Second, it provides a seamless way to push BOM revisions to the Aligni assembly. This discipline helps maintain consistency between schematics and the PLM data. This workflow is often preferred because it requires that all parts be created in the PLM database before they can be applied to a schematic. First, it allows schematic placement of components directly from the Aligni PLM database. Aligni Connector serves two primary roles in the typical CAD workflow. We continue to investigate ways to improve the connection between Aligni and Altium Designer.Īligni Connector for Altium Designer is a plugin for the electrical CAD package Altium Designer. Instead, we suggest using Altium Replicator and the workflow outlined there. The state and level of support for the Altium API does not allow us to deliver the user experience expected by our customers. The problem with what you are describing is that the packager will only export one of the footprints, and it will choose the one that is on the base schematic.Unfortunately, development on Aligni Connector has been terminated. I can follow the instructions to create a cjedectype.txt file and then replace the LED_0603 with a RES_0603. Our LED footprint is named something like LED_0603 and our resistor footprint would be named something like RES_0603. One instance where we've done this is if we have a 0603 package LED and on some variants, we want to replace that with a resistor. This is typically done though when components are close enough to be placed on the same footprint, but they don't actually share the same footprint. In the version that I have locally, it is on page 56, at the end of the 'Creating the Variant Database' section. There is a method, which is buried pretty deep in the 'Design Variance User Guide' that talks about 'Using Compatible JEDEC_TYPEs'. By default, the variant editor will only pull components with the same JEDEC_TYPE.

Altium variant schematic