I am sorry if I wasn't describing the problem in enough detail, I'll try again. But also thank you for your link, I already heard the term "DBLib" some time but didn't really care to investigate what it is since I am just starting with altium. Reading the techdoc is quite interesting, I guess I will use that technique in the future after getting used to altium.
My actual problem now is the following: i am creating a part, which works fine, but somehow there are given standard values (which are the values I used in my first part ever created) that reappear for every part.
In steps I do the following:
- create my footprint in a PcbLib file
- switch to my Schlib and start creating the schematic symbol for my part
- want to place a pin, press tab to change the parameters and it suggests me the parameters I used for my very first part - which is the opposite of what I want to use at the moment.
- I change the parameters to what I think fits my purpose right now
- Now I am done creating my schematic symbol and would like to fill in my values for the component parameters like the default designator, description and name as well as some custom parameters like a link to a datasheet. So i couble click on the already highlighted name of the component in the library overview
- and again, standard values from the first device I made....
- have to change everything over again, add my parameters, configure footprints and so on. after that I am basically done.
My question now is: why does altium ALWAYS suggest the values I used for that darn rectifier? Why cant I/where can I configure standard values that suit my style of creating components so that I don't have to retype those all over and over again for every single part and every first pin of a part I create? How can I change this behaviour?
Hope that made it clear
regarding my question about the datasheet integration: i decided to just place a link to a datasheet in the parameter section, as shown in the last picture. Is there a better way to do this? Like the integration of a supplier, just for datasheets?
thanks.