Hi all,
I've got a scenario that must have happened to most of you, but I can't figure out the right Altium setup for it. I have a simple LED board that I want to use in two different places in our device assembly; one pcb on the left side and one on the right side. But they're both the exact same PCBs (identical gerbers) with the same reference designators, etc. The only difference between left and right is how a couple of i2c address resistors are populated during board assembly. So this means that the system BOM should have two of each component, i.e. 2 of R1, 2 of R2, 2 of C1, etc, because one for each left and right side board. I realize that I could simply generate two different BOMs, but then I would need to manually combine part quantities for ordering, etc. Isn't there a simply way for Altium to help me automate this common scenario? My BOM should have the correct cumulative total for each part, including the duplicated ref designators.
Initially I thought that Altium's "variant" feature would do this, but it seems to only work as an "either/or" type of feature, not allowing BOTH variants to be included in a BOM/design. Thoughts? Thanks!
Brian
I've got a scenario that must have happened to most of you, but I can't figure out the right Altium setup for it. I have a simple LED board that I want to use in two different places in our device assembly; one pcb on the left side and one on the right side. But they're both the exact same PCBs (identical gerbers) with the same reference designators, etc. The only difference between left and right is how a couple of i2c address resistors are populated during board assembly. So this means that the system BOM should have two of each component, i.e. 2 of R1, 2 of R2, 2 of C1, etc, because one for each left and right side board. I realize that I could simply generate two different BOMs, but then I would need to manually combine part quantities for ordering, etc. Isn't there a simply way for Altium to help me automate this common scenario? My BOM should have the correct cumulative total for each part, including the duplicated ref designators.
Initially I thought that Altium's "variant" feature would do this, but it seems to only work as an "either/or" type of feature, not allowing BOTH variants to be included in a BOM/design. Thoughts? Thanks!
Brian
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