Altium is killing me! I am basically doing a semi-volunteer project to learn Altium, my previous workplace used Eagle. I made a library from scratch and compiled it to an integrated library. The library compile without any issues, and all of the symbols are associated with a footprint.
When I want to 'compile' from schematic to PCB, some of the parts complain about not being able to find their PINS. Their is also an error about not being able to add components to a class, I didn't create the class and I am not sure what the purpose of it even is.
When I go to the library for the capacitor, Pin 1 is mapped to pad one on the footprint and Pin2 is mapped to PAD2 on the footprint.
Any Ideas?
I am not sure how to embed the pictures bigger, but if you right click them and choose open picture they are bigger.
Thanks!
Best Answer
This has nothing to do with missing PINs in components. This has to do with that the PINs in the schematic differs from the PINs in the layout. My guess is that you have added components to the schematic and when you validate the schematic against the layout (Validate Changes) Altium can't find the new PINs in the layout. A strange way of the program to say that you have added new pins to the schematic that are not in the layout. This happens often for me as well in Altium.
If you press Execute Changes, I'm pretty sure that Altium will add the new PINs to the layout without giving you any trouble. I'm not sure but if you then press Validate Changes you will get nice green circles all the way.