Ultra Librarian - Accelerated Designs

[Poe]

Just tried to get some symbols and footprints from Microchip's website.  They had me download this Ultra Librarian program to convert their proprietary format into one my EDA tool (Altium) could handle.  Bit of a pain in the ass, I can't see why they don't just do it on their (Microchip server) side. 

Anyway, does anyone have experience using the free and/or paid version of this program?
http://www.accelerated-designs.com/

[marshallh]

Ultra Librarian is such crap. The altium export failed to work properly, and after manually editing the generated vbscript (yes that's how it "works") I got it imported.

Don't even bother, just make the package yourself. Save time in the end

[Gribo]

I had good experience importing some TI components into Altium. However, the imported strings are just that, so instead of the actual designator, you get just a RefDes string. Also, some vendors tend to cram tons of useless properties for no obvious reason, and some have too few properties (TI and Microchip respectively).

[Poe]

Thanks for the feedback.  Just getting the symbols and footprints for the Microchip parts was a real pain using this software.  Is it proprietary or are there easier programs I could use?