Mastering the myProto BAT

This is the user interface that will allow you to easily search and replace components that don’t correspond to your expectations or aren’t currently available with our suppliers. It also allows you to ignore the unnecessary components that are present in you BOM or to have them unmounted or even activate the self delivery option if you want to use your own components stocks.

Click on the bom line to open the detailed component window.

1. Position of the component in BOM
2. Main UI tab
3. Manufacturer part number (MPN) used
4. Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) code used
5. Components general information
6. Mounting selection tab
7. Specific Notes tab for the production team
8. Alternative search tool tab. Used to search for alternatives at Octopart.
9. Brief summary of imported data used for search
10. Switch to fully ignore component
11. Switch in order to deliver the selected component yourself
12. Components Manufacturer name
13. Components Supplier name
14. Used to search for alternatives within myProto database with basic keywords (still work in progress)

Mounting Tab

In this tab, are noted the designators that are associated to the given component. The information is automatically filled in from the BOM file data. The tab consists of the following two parts:

1. Mounted: The designators for which the given component has to be mounted
2. Not Mounted: The designators for which the given component should not be mounted. You can insert extra designators here, in case you would like to order extra components but do not want them to be mounted on the PCB.

Notes Tab

In this tab, you can give to the myProto production team, extra information regarding a component.

Alternatives Tab

this section is divided in two parts:

1. Proposed Components: When myProto detects that there is an alternative from its stock, that can be used instead of the chosen component.
2. Search for alternatives: This part consists of a text field and the related filters. In case that the desired component is not in stock, you can use either the text field or the related filters in order to search for an alternative component that matches your criteria. Note that the filters work progressively (meaning that first you have to apply the first filter, and then the second one on the obtained results).

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