One part and several BOM entries - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: idefix
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 23, 2013, 02:09:55 pm
content: Hi,is it possible to home one component to handle in schematic and PCB but it consists of 3 parts in BOM.Excatly it will be 2 x a pin:http://eshop.wago.com/JPBC/singleview/guestDeepLink.hbc?supplierAID=243-131&catalogID=WAGO01and 1x:http://eshop.wago.com/JPBC/singleview/guestDeepLink.hbc?supplierAID=243-211&catalogID=WAGO01So if I add the part once it should list in the BOM 2x243-131 and 1x243-211.If I had two of this combined parts it should add to BOM 4x243-131 and 2x243-211.Is this possible?ThanksMatthias

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 23, 2013, 02:45:16 pm
content: Not that i am aware of. That would defeat the back end assembly link....You could trick it by adding a custom manufacturer and enter the partnumbers in that field but it would not be a line by line bom.

author: Rufus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 23, 2013, 06:31:42 pm
content: Quote from: idefix on August 23, 2013, 02:09:55 pmYou can place parts with a type of Mechanical which will generate BOM items without generating any PCB foot print.You could place a jumper and two mechanical parts in a device sheet and place the device sheet but then you end up with an ugly device sheet symbol in your schematic not a jumper symbol.It is an area Altium screwed up IMO. Ancient OrCAD supported sheetpath parts which basically let you create a schematic symbol with pins to represent schematic sheet with ports. It was widely used with libraries to for example place a TTL MSI part which had an underlying hierarchy of sheets producing the function of the part in primitives of this or that FPGA/PLD.Altium had to support it to be compatible (and possibly still does) but I don't think there ever was a way to directly create a sheetpath part in Altium. Later they came up with the device sheet scheme which could easily have supported the use of custom schematic symbols for the sheets but didn't.

author: idefix
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 23, 2013, 10:00:59 pm
content: Thanks a lot for your answers. Maybe an improvement suggestion for a future version

author: sacherjj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2013, 03:14:50 pm
content: If you make a schematic symbol and add it to the sheet. Then right click on the part and refactor -> convert part to ports, you can explode a part to a sheet.Then you have a sheet that is represented as the 3 schematic and BOM parts, but one sheet symbol in the high levels. Also look into repeat statements.I have a USB port and associated circuits on one sheet and use Repeat(U,1,12) to put 12 channels of them in a schematic. You can have group ports or separate ports. Then in the PCB, you have rooms for each. Route one room and then select Design -> Rooms -> Copy Room Formats. Click on the routed one first. Then click on each of the other rooms and it will auto place and route. Very handy for doing a job once with multi channel designs.

author: Rufus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2013, 04:02:19 pm
content: Quote from: sacherjj on August 27, 2013, 03:14:50 pmWhich instead of a symbol for a jumper gives you a stupid green box with two sheet entries on your schematic. Completely unacceptable for me.