Ultra Librarian
Digitally signed app
Description
Search. Download. Design.
Ultra Librarian® has teamed up with Autodesk® Fusion® to provide users with access to all the parts they need directly within the software to complete their designs. Quickly find verified schematic symbols, PCB footprints, 3D STEP models, and reference designs in our ever-expanding database of verified parts from leading component manufacturers.
Ultra Librarian for Fusion Features:
- Search millions of verified CAD models
- Browse native reference designs from participating manufacturers
- Save models and reference designs directly in Fusion libraries
- Place models in your design without ever leaving Fusion
About Ultra Librarian
Ultra Librarian is a free online resource to help take the busy work out of the design process by providing the largest amount of CAD models available for download. Receive unlimited access to FREE schematic symbols, footprints, 3D Models, simulation models, reference designs, and many other helpful tools to help make smart design choices. Get back to what matters most; innovation, not part creation.
You can't register because of the image verification that is repeated "over and over again". The photos are of such poor quality that it's hard to find "fire hydrant" on a large monitor.
I have absolutely no idea what this is for. I want to work, I don't want to be treated like a halfwit!
Great concept and a much needed tool for a smooth workflow but extremely unstable and can crash on you randomly.
Needs logging in every few hours.(Relatively easy problem to fix, log in once a month?)
need a few more options as to where 3d files get saved. All in all needs a bit more stability and itll become usable.
I find myself creating footprints half the time so this doesnt really help all that much.
An updated version of the Ultra Librarian plugin is now available on the Autodesk App Store which addresses the noted stability, login duration and library access issues. The Download Profile system has been replaced with a Fusion native library selection interface. Login now persisted across Fusion sessions. UI updates to improve layout consistency in smaller windows. Any further feedback would be appreciated and considered for future plugin updates.
Great concept but unusable.
Each button click in the menu causes Fusion to freeze for 5 minutes.
An updated version of the Ultra Librarian plugin is now available on the Autodesk App Store which addresses the noted stability, login duration and library access issues. The Download Profile system has been replaced with a Fusion native library selection interface. Login now persisted across Fusion sessions. UI updates to improve layout consistency in smaller windows. Any further feedback would be appreciated and considered for future plugin updates.
A lot of drop down menus require to keep the mouse pressed to be able to select an item. If only clicked once the drop down only shows up for a split second before closing again.
The setup is also cumbersome, you can't have a globally managed library but have to manually create a component library in a specific project first before being able to download parts into it.
While its nice that I get to choose where the parts should be added to it would be nice if I could add it to my global libraries.io parts and not just project specific library files.
Creating library files if none exists would also be helpful.
Update 16/11/2024
The plugin is completely broken now. You can not login and it crashes often when searching and does not return any search results when it doesn't. Not being able to login prevents you from downloading any models even if it would find something.
An updated version of the Ultra Librarian plugin is now available on the Autodesk App Store which addresses the noted stability, login duration and library access issues. The Download Profile system has been replaced with a Fusion native library selection interface. Login now persisted across Fusion sessions. UI updates to improve layout consistency in smaller windows. Any further feedback would be appreciated and considered for future plugin updates.
Thanks for updating the plugin. Though it appears that the download button is missing. Whenever I do a search and click on a found part that has data available I do not get the usual download button. There seems to be no way to download models right now.
If you have already installed the updated Ultra Librarian Plugin then this download button issue is due to browser caching within Fusion. Action has been taken to mitigate this issue, and re-opening fusion and the Ultra Librarian plugin should correct the issue. In the event this issue persists you can clear your browser cache from within Fusion using the "Help" menu, under "Support and Diagnostics" you will find "Clear cache data", that option will restart fusion, clear the cache and restore the download button in the Ultra Librarian Plugin.
tried clear cache, still doesnt show up
As I am converting my business from Eagle to Fusion 360 Electronics, Ultra Librarian stuck out as a great innovation to help the transition. In practice, it is just not ready.
Launching Ultra Librarian is awkward because it is a tool in the schematic, not in the library manager or even library editor. So to add to a library, you need to open a schematic to get to UL, with some luck, download the part you need, and then go back to the desired library and hope it is there. Sadly, it usually isn't.
Installation is not ideal. First, you need to find the app store, which for some reason is not linked in any way I can find from Fusion 360. Then when downloading, Windows 10/11 is not happy about the file. So there is a lot of effort to install it due to lack of popularity and digital signature. Really, it seems weird that it needs to be installed locally at all for a cloud service CAD tool. So that means you need to go throuh all the effort on any machine where you want to use the "available everywhere" Fusion 360. Components can't be downloaded from their website, but only through the add-in from what I can find.
Then there is the quality of the library parts. The schematic symbols are not well done with lots of off-grid elements. The footprints often need some work especially on the paste layers. And the 3D cad are hit and miss along with having no file organizationi. In fairness, that is a Fusion 360 general deficiency.
As much as I want this to work, it just isn't worth the effort.
An updated version of the Ultra Librarian plugin is now available on the Autodesk App Store which addresses the noted stability, login duration and library access issues. The Download Profile system has been replaced with a Fusion native library selection interface. Login now persisted across Fusion sessions. UI updates to improve layout consistency in smaller windows. Any further feedback would be appreciated and considered for future plugin updates.