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In fact, to update an integrated library really means to replace it altogether – you must purposefully pull up the original library package, update the source documents, then recompile.

From a security perspective, integrated libraries are solid – once they’re generated, there’s no changing them.

If a component is placed onto a design schematic from an integrated library, Altium Designer is guaranteed to find the right model if it can simply locate the integrated library it came from – no juggling of separated library and model files, where model links can prove very ‘brittle’, and easily broken by everyday management tasks such as renaming folders on a hard drive.

This portability is priceless if you divide your work among different workstations or want to share your designs with others. All component information is available in a single, portable file – since all models are packaged into the integrated library, only one file needs to be available to the project or moved when the project is relocated.The key benefits of compiling into an integrated library are: So why use an integrated library, instead of just maintaining the separate schematic and pcb footprint libraries? The files containing PCB 2D/3D component models and simulation models/sub-circuits can be located in any valid search location – within the project, within files in the Installed Libraries list, or down the search path(s) specified for the package. Referenced models can include PCB 2D/3D component models, circuit simulation models, and signal integrity models.Īlthough you can include both the schematic and pcb libraries in the package, the only document that MUST be added to the integrated library package is the schematic library (or libraries).

These are stored across one or more schematic library files. Schematic symbols are drawn in the Schematic Library Editor, and model references/links defined for each, along with any parametric information.

An Integrated Library Package (*.LibPkg) is a type of SOLIDWORKS PCB project which is used, not to layout a pcb, but to gather together schematic symbols and pcb footprints in order to produce an integrated library.