Objective: To learn how to both migrate and clone existing projects from Altium to Duro.
Difficulty: Expert
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The text describes two methods for integrating Altium projects with Duro: a straightforward migration for transferring data and a more complex cloning process for duplicating projects in Duro while retaining the original in Altium. The migration involves publishing the project to Duro directly, while cloning requires initializing the project in Duro via Altium, both resulting in the project being accessible in Duro with its parameters, including the PLM part number, being manageable within Duro's environment.
Migration and cloning overview
In this section, we’ll demonstrate firstly how to migrate an existing Altium project into Duro without creating a clone and secondly how to migrate and clone an existing Altium project into Duro. The first method allows you to migrate existing data from Altium into Duro only, whereas the second does this in addition to creating a clone of the data. The first process is much simpler and takes less time to complete, whereas the second is more time-consuming. The second process should be utilized when you have an existing design and want to transfer all the details into Duro. You can do this for any project that you have that is not associated with Duro. This uses the clone with the Initialize in PLM option that is available from the Altium A365 web client. This method will create a duplicate project that has been initialized in Duro. Use this option if you want two copies of your project, one in Duro and one outside of Duro.
Altium: copying an existing project into Duro only (first method)
Duro also has another method that copies component data into Duro, which this section will demonstrate. This does not duplicate the project in Altium.
- Open your project in Altium.
- Ensure that you have a release generated already and that you're ready to publish in Duro.
- Click on the Project Sheet.
- Click on the Projects tab.
- Click on Project Activities.
- Click on Publish to PLM (OOTB) which populates the “Publish to PLM (OOTB)” module.
- Ensure that the correct project is selected and click on Start. This populates the Select date to publish the module.
- Select the release that you wish to generate to publish in Duro.
- Click Submit. This populates the “Login Credentials” module.
- Enter your Duro email into the username field.
- Enter your plugin password into the password field.
- Click Submit.
The project will be initialized, and the release published into Duro. If you inspect the project parameters, it will show that the PLM part number has been generated. From here, additional releases can be generated and published into Duro as outlined in the Publishing Releases section.
Altium: cloning and copying an existing project into Duro (second method)
In this section, we’ll cover the first migration method of cloning and initializing a project.
- Select the project that you wish to clone by clicking the three dots in the bottom right corner of the project tile.
- Select Clone – Initialize in PLM (OOTB). This will populate the Clone – Initialize in PLM (OOTB)
- Enter a name in the Project Name field of the module.
- Click Start. This will generate the Initialize in PLM – Login Credentials
- Enter your Duro email into the username
- Enter your plugin password into the password field.
- Click Submit.
Now the project has been cloned and copied in Duro. The data doesn’t move out of Altium, but the data is simply copied into Duro. From here, a release can be generated if not already on the clone project. Once the clone project has a release, it can be published Duro as outlined in the Publishing Releases section. At this point, feel free to close this project.
Altium: viewing project parameters
You can view the project parameters after utilizing either migration method. If we open the project in Altium Designer and look at the project parameters, we will see the PLM part number, as was demonstrated in the previous section on cloning and initializing a project in Altium.
- In the Projects window, click on Duro Labs.
- Click on Open Project.
- Ensure that the project you want to open is selected under in the Name pane.
- Click Open.
- Open the project parameters by clicking on the project in the Projects window again.
- Select Project Options.
- Click on the Parameters
- Click the Refresh button in the module that populates.
- The PLM part number that was generated by Duro is now viewable. The line item will show “PlmPartNumber” under the Name column, and the CPN will be shown under the Value column.
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