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    I am following the lecture materials.
    I understand I am using a different version (21.5.1.) of Altium design from one of the used Altium.
    Mostly, I could follow the lecture materials with a new version of Altium.
    However, one major difficulty to duplicate the lecture material is that I wasn't able to match the scale of a component for the symbol libraries.
    As an example of the attached image, for 1M Register, that I wasn't able to figure out why they look different.
    In the lecture, a pin length is set to 10 (old version doesn't show the unit, but I guess it is 10 mil) and I guess the visible grid is 20mil and the snap grid is 10mil as shown in the below picture.

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    In my environment, I also set the visible grid as 20mil and the snap grid as 10mil.
    and I set pin length 10mil, but the relative size of the designator and name of a pin are quite different even If their size is to be the minimum (6).
    I wondered what I am missing here. I wasn't able to figure it out. This is not only for the Resistor but also all other symbols, especially AND logic symbol.
    Could you point what I missed?
    Thank you

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  • #2
    The old Altium's schematic library units are in 10's of mils, this means if the old Altium shows 10 it is 100mils in the new Altium. Hope this helps.

    PS: Also this may help: Altium - How to Create Library from Existing Project - Step by Step Tutorial https://youtu.be/zhuHE9b4C_8

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    • #3
      Thank you for your clarification.

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