HTML interactive BOM

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@qu1ck

My schematics have 2 types of resistors in the same package: 1% and 0.1%. I’m wondering how this can be differentiated when a HTML BOM is generated using the plugin? I’ve tried for example to use 150K for 1% and 150.0K for 0.1% but all 150K are grouped in the same line; also 150K0 did not work either.

qu1ck, can you please advise?

Thanks and most appreciated,
-an

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There are multiple ways to handle this.

  1. Add a “precision” extra field. Downside is that it will be empty for most non-passive components.
  2. Add a more generic “comment” field. Use it to indicate precision for resistors that care about it, capacitor type/voltage, winding count for hand wound coils, whatever you want.
  3. Use fully specified part numbers instead of footprint field.
  4. Use atomic parts where you have a symbol + footprint pair exclusive for each part, even if footprint is copied a lot for each nominal/precision of resistors.

I personally usually go with #2.

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I don’t do much with the BOM myself, but I have seen “values” such as: “150k 0.1% 0603” on schematics.

And maybe it’s already enough to just change the ordering, sorting, or grouping on BOM export.

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Thank you both for the comments.

@qu1ck I add a new field to the resistor called “Precision”, and I set-it to 0.1% for the precision components. Works great!

Just for others that use this feature: when generated the html report you have to include a custom field (e.g. “Precision”) within grouping (check the tab Fields prior pressing Generate BOM button).

Thanks for your support and Most Appreciated!
-an

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Altium Grups all components marked “10K” even if the MPN or footprint is different. For example you will se a row with this content:

R1,R2,R3; 10K; Footprint 0603,0805; mpn 10K, 10k1%

So the mounter cannot know if must place 2 resistors 0603 or 2 resistors 0805.
So is normal place some different on value (comment on Altium) as rule