Electronic – Altium: problems with generation 3D body with IPC component wizard

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I'm a big fan of this feature embedded in Altium. However some of the component generators have flaws:

  • Chip resistor and chip capacitor generators making me a wrong component height (despite the "minimum height" setting the resistor appearing too high, and the capacitor is too low)

  • SOD123FL body have no cathode designator

I think that there should be an editable file which I could edit to correct these errors or a setting section. But I did not find any.

Best Answer

The STEP model created by the Alitum Wizard is not editable, at least inside Altium. Actually you can't modify any STEP model in Altium.

I suppose you could go around this doing this:

  • Placing the footprint in a PCB
  • Exporting the PCB into a STEP model
  • Modifing the STEP model in a CAD tool such as Solidworks.

It doesn't seem worthy at all.

I would suggest one of the next options:

Failing all this, you can create a basic 3D model in Altium extruding basic shapes.