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PCB Design Tutorial for Industry Part Creation Part 2 Altium Develop

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Try Altium Develop for your business today: https://www.altium.com/yt/kirschmackey @AltiumStories @AltiumAcademy #altiumstories Your PCB hardware design team having trouble standardizing PCB designs? Watch this video to build a part from scratch the right way that scales. Understand why hardware should be designed a certain way and why. The business impact.

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In this Part 2 of my industry PCB design tutorial, I build an eMMC part “the right way” in Altium so it scales across a real team—not just a one-off hobby library. I start with the real-world mess: the exact capacity I wanted didn’t have CAD/IBIS models available, so I pivot to a 32GB option that actually has models, and I talk through the business impact (yes, it’s about $5 more per board, and that changes margin and pricing). Then I show how I pull ECAD/3D data in using Library Loader, verify the BGA footprint and 3D model, and make sure the part isn’t just “placed,” but actually usable in an industrial workflow. The big takeaway is library hygiene and traceability. If you import parts blindly, you end up with random downloaded libraries floating outside your project, and that kills standardization. I demonstrate copying footprints and symbols from the temporary Samacsys-style library into my own controlled project libraries, then mapping the schematic symbol to the correct footprint library path (don’t assume it’s linked correctly). Finally, I fill in the minimum metadata that matters in industry—manufacturer, MPN, description, datasheet URL, and supplier links—because the schematic is a living project document for your whole organization, not just the EE who drew it.

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