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Various design templates maintain standard uniformity
1. Schematic template
If the circuit diagram of a PCB design project is more complex and large, it is usually not possible to stack all the designs on the same schematic diagram. The circuit will be divided into several sub-circuit modules, and each sub-circuit module will be marked with the corresponding title bar, general function, and so on. Generally speaking, for a complete and beautiful design, when others read your electroplating diagram, they can understand the overall basic situation of the circuit from the title bar of your drawing and the connection structure of related modules at a glance.
Therefore, the title bar and author information on each schematic diagram, especially when different designers design a drawing, must have a unified standard for the title bar and related information, so as not to be caused by various different styles. confusion. Then the design and application of the schematic template is particularly demanding in the case of such large-scale projects and teamwork.
Because it is a military-industrial institute, the title bar also contains special requirements such as name, material, confidentiality level, etc., as well as hierarchical approval and filing procedures for design, proofreading, review, standard inspection, and verification in addition to the general information. Finally, for the unity of the design, the same title bar was designed for different paper sizes to facilitate the management and filing of the design data.
2. PCB design template
In terms of PCB design, if there are several boards of the same series, and the size, interface layout, and installation positioning holes have been determined not to be changed, they need to be made into a PCB template.
Every time a new design is made in the future, the schematic diagram will be directly imported into this PCB design template, saving a lot of board shape design, peripheral layout design, and the design of the installation and positioning part.
Apply energy directly to the design change itself. Significantly save unnecessary duplication of labor, and will not go wrong.
3. BOM template
Information construction has become the only way for modern enterprises to quickly improve their core competitiveness and achieve leapfrog development. Today, enterprises no longer pursue the informatization of single-point and partial application methods, but increasingly value the overall informatization of application integration, process optimization and information sharing.
In enterprises, BOM (Bill of Materials) runs through the entire ecological process of product conceptual design, detailed design, process planning, prototype trial production, processing and manufacturing, sales， and maintenance until the demise of the product. With the advancement of enterprise information construction, BOM has become the core of enterprise product data management and the foundation and bridge for data integration between various application information systems. BOM management has become the main content of enterprise engineering informatization and management informatization.
In life cycle management, BOM runs through the beginning and end of the entire life cycle. From BOM provision, BOM management, to BOM use are inseparable. In Altium Designer, BOM also runs through the entire process from the conceptual design of electronic products to the final manufacturing, sales, and maintenance.
Altium Designer provides circuit design BOM, and can import structural step parts, and can change and manage the BOM during the design process. When the design is completed, when electronic product processing and manufacturing, component procurement, and product assembly are carried out, there are process BOM, procurement BOM, manufacturing and assembly BOM information respectively. Play an important role in the entire product life cycle. Therefore, the templates for BOM are also very rich.
Altium Designer’s BOM template data source can collect a full range of information, and there are N types of output templates (used for purchasing, manufacturing, assembly, review, etc.). The file format is also rich and diverse.
And for each BOM template file, which column information needs to be captured and which content can be configured and changed by itself. You can find the source BOM template file (in the Template folder of the installation directory), and configure the captured data column. Finally output the BOM information for different purposes that you need in mind.
