Reuse Blocks and Snippets in Altium 365

What Is a Reuse Block in Altium?

A reuse block is a new entity (group of components or routed circuits) that can be placed to design and integrated with your projects in a couple of clicks. It contains a Schematic drawing and a PCB board. A block cannot be created without components or with an empty PCB part.

Design Reuse Panel

To access Reuse Block, select Design Reuse in Panels or View > Panel > Design Reuse in the top menu bar in Altium Designer.

The new Design Reuse panel provides access to reuse blocks and snippets. Snippets can be created in Workspace-based and local, whereas reuse blocks can only be created in Workspace-based settings. Let’s talk about the snippets later.

There is an option to see server-saved blocks and local and server-saved snippets. If not connected to Altium 365, you will only see local snippets; if a user is logged in, you see blocks and snippets in the server.

In the panel, you can add, see, sort, place, edit, and delete blocks:

Snippets

In addition to reuse blocks, we added the ability to store snippets in Altium 365. To create a snippet, select a group of elements in a Schematic or PCB, and in the right-click menu, select Snippets:

Snippets can be saved either locally or in the Workspace:

After creation, a snippet will appear in the Design Reuse panel: