

I put in some "mount hole" footprints the other day just so that I could attach a 3D model of a washer and screw to ensure that there would be no overlap with components and it was faster to use a model form 3D CAD than dick about in CS. I was little more than a box with the origin in some random location (for all 3 axis). Recently I modelled a common mode choke, I did not go into too much detail as I only had a fem dims on the datasheet and some guesse to go on but I then found mouser offered a model. I model everything and if possible download some of the more complicated ones.

If you are serious about 3D modelling you will have a 3D CAD package. Thing with 3D PDF is that you will never make very nice 3D models from the crude tools in CS. Even the licence management is buggy.Īh so i am not going mad. I also see that they are playing around with pricing again and essentially telling me that they are happy to have ripped me off for £720 (10% discount) but are having to sell at half the price as the shear lie that this is altium is now exposed and we all know how buggy it is and how little they care to support it. I see that support for higher resolution monitors is not there. I hope this means they have fixed a shed load of bugs they are too embarrassed to talk about. Export to 3D PDF? seriously this is a feature? they just bought some code to put a PDF wrapper around the step file you could already export. Layer set's I have no idea as I have never needed them and possibly need an education in that area. The filter function I don't get, it was already there, to call this a new feature is a joke. It looks like they tinkered at the edges to shut us up and illicit a renewal. I'm not impressed not that I have really used it to see the difference.
