I find this article interesting as it puts in perspective the market that Altium is actually targeting.
For people like myself who build a small number of PCB's with less than 500 components with a mixture of digital and analog and power on the one board, the product is a pain in the neck.
Finding components which you would expect in a product like this to be fairly easy and the core of the product is just a waste of time.
The reality is that you want to do something you make your own library of components and go from there.
Build or download components from someone else who has spent the time to make and model them but rarely from Altium.
Try and find a resistor or diode or op amp in the libraries, good luck.
I hope any future product addresses this significant shortcoming.
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The little guy
