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Altium tool to view board and track what components are fitted

I hand-assemble boards fairly often and a few things consistently slow me down:

  • Spotting every instance of the same part across the board
  • Keeping track of no-fits
  • Picking up where I left off when assembly spans multiple sessions

So I put together a small tool to help: https://github.com/bigcrimping/altium_assembly_tool/

It's built on top of altium_monkey, which it uses as the interface to the Altium documents, and pulls component data straight from the PCB file. If you're using variants to handle no-fits, it also needs the .prjpcb.

Might be useful to anyone else doing the same. If you hit any issues, and are happy to share .prjcb/pcbdoc files with me I would be happy to bug fix.

Posted May 27, 2026, 7:33 PM UTC

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