Lesson 2: Using PartQuest Portal to Find/Add eCAD Models
Overview
PartQuest Portal is your gateway to the richest collection of component technical and supply chain content for electronics design. Research components from an industry recognized component catalog. Drag & Drop pre-made eCAD models or custom content you create utilizing Portal's part builder wizards and templates to PADS Professional.
Key Features
Billions of PartQuest Vault eCAD models created, validate, and maintained by Siemens
Parametric properties downloaded with Symbol automatically. No manual entry required
Organize and manage parts in project libraries
Comprehensive part builder wizards make custom part creation easy
Access to part creation service
Note: If you do not have a PartQuest partition you will need to create one before proceeding with this lesson.
To create a PartQuest partition:
Using your browser, navigate to https://portal.partquest.com and log in using your trial credentials.
Select the command dropdown from your user name (top right).
Select My Profile.
Under the Download Configuration section, select Edit Partitions
Select Add New Partition
Name the partition "PartQuest"
Select Done
Replace Part Using PartQuest Portal
This lesson will show you how easy it is to find design content using PartQuest Portal's rich database of over 1 billion parts.
Following the steps from Lesson 1, open Designer and check out the LED Flasher project from Connect. You've realized that R7 (Yageo AC0603JR-0710KL) is not available so yo're going to replace it with a new part using PartQuest Portal.
Open the Search panel by selecting the search icon from the main toolbar (or press Ctrl+F).
Select the PartQuest icon in the top toolbar of the search panel. The PartQuest Portal web application will launch in a new browser tab (you may need to log in first). In the Select Tool window, select the "PADS Professional" and "VX.2.7 or Later" options then select Done.
We'll use a new Panasonic part to replace R7. Copy and paste ERJ-PA3J103V into the PartQuest Portal search box.
Using the first result, left mouse click on the Drag and Drop icon (blue icon with a download arrow) and drag the part into the Designer Search panel. You should see a "Drop Here" message appear in the Search panel. Drop the new part into the Search panel to download the part to your desktop. (you may be prompted to review your parts before drag and drop. Select PartQuest from the Partition drop down.)
Within the search window, click on the Library - Parts tab.
Scroll down until you find the partition called PartQuest. The only entry that should show in this partition is the resistor that was just added to your project library.
Click and drag the new resistor onto the schematic (make sure you select the instance that contains the hash mark in the left column), and continue with replacing R7 (the 10k resistor connected of the DIS pin of the NE555). Notice that the properties that were in PartQuest are on the new part.