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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