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    Posted: 22 Sep 2021 at 11:11am
After entering dimensions into Footprint Expert, and click "Calculate", and then Build Footprint... I'm able to edit the footprint name before clicking Create (so that my Altium footprint and Step file both have my edited footprint name).

But if I then click "Send to Library"... the new row in my FPX file has the original name for the footprint and Step file.  I'd have to manually edit both of them. Could the edited name be sent to the FPX file instead? If I do the edit of footprint name, and then from the Footprint pane, I click "Add Footprint to Library"

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The correct way to change the default footprint name is in the Library Editor. 

Enter the package dimensions, Calculate and Save to Library. 

Then edit the Footprint Name in the FPX file and it will be permanently changed. 

Then reopen the renamed footprint and select Build Footprint out to CAD tool. 
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This not always works.

If I create a footprint for a manufacturer not recognized by Footprint Expert, after re-opening saved footprint the prefix is missing.
PCB Libraries Footprint Expert to CAD Translator window has no Footprint Name, hence translation is not possible.
See attached screenshot.

Maybe I should post a bug report.
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FERYSTER is not in the Manufacturer List. 

Can you send us one footprint from this mfr. so we can add it to POD and update the manufacturer list. 

Please include all the column data. 

In the meantime until we release V2021.17, you can update your local manufacturer list to include FERYSTER to your Footprint Expert program. 

The the FPX file library there is a dropdown menu called "Utilities" 

Select "Utilities > Edit Manufacturer List" and a dialog box will appear and fill it out like this:


 
Then the mfr. Feryster will appear in your FP Designer Specifications panel and everything will work perfect. 
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Here's the library with Feryster DTSN-33/4,7/20-V footprint.

The Columns that I think are related to the Symbol Editor (which I don't have) are not filled.
The footprint is not checked yet in manufacturing process.
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Hi. I will email you the updated Manufacturer List.
It will also be updated in the next build.
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We updated the "Library > Utilities > Edit Manufacturer List" in the V2021.17 pre-release. 

It's now much easier to add a new mfr. name to the program. 
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I'll check it out when you publish it.
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There is no Library> Utilities> Update Manufacturer List menu item.

Library utilities menu
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It's Edit Manufacturer List.
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