ALTAIR PollEx 2021.1 BOM User Guide

: June 3, 2024
: ALTAIR

Altair PollEx 2021.1

BOM User Guide

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Conventions Used in this Guide

This guide uses the following conventions:

Bold Italic All commands from the user interface. Options, menus, buttons, and dialog box names are bolded, but not italicized.

Example: On the Welcome screen, click Next.

Courier The path of a program or folder; a web address; a file name or component; text that the user is expected to enter.

Example: The default path is C:\Program Files\Altair\2020\PollEx

Questions regarding the document may be directed to PollEx team at [email protected].

PollEx BOM

PollEx BOM is BOM parsing and formatting tool. It is designed to BOM parsing and formatting process of virtually any Excel or ASCII file. However, PollEx BOM is widely used to viewer program for PCB / LOGIC / BOM data comparisons in PollEx CP rather than reviewing BOM data in PollEx BOM.

1. PollEx BOM Window

PollEx BOM tool’s window is consisted with Menu bar, Tool bar, Working area, Excel format setting window, Status bar.

The interfaced excel is displayed in Working Area. Also, user can set excel format in Excel Format Setting Window.

Excel Data Interface

Support 3 type’s data interface in PollEx BOM.
1) ASCII BOM Interface
2) MS/Excel BOM Interface
3) PollEx PCB Binary Data Interface

1. ASCII BOM Interface

BOM data is extracted intermittently in ASCII format from the EDA tool. In this case, user can interface ASCII BOM data.
File > Import BOM > ASCII BOM

User can interface ASCII BOM data, if selecting File > Import BOM > ASCII BOM.

Delete after you have specified the unnecessary column.
Click with the right mouse button > Delete Column

Set as Reference, Part, Type etc. after you have specified the area for setting such as Reference name/Part name/Type, etc.
Click with the right mouse button > Set As Reference/Part/Type, etc.

Pressing Get Report button, extract report in this form.
Tool > Get final Report

2. MS/Excel BOM Interface

File > Import BOM > MS/Excel BOM

User can interface MS/Excel BOM data, if selecting File > Import BOM > MS/Excel BOM.

User can review in PollEx CP if entering a few items in Excel Format Setting Window.

3. PollEx PCB Binary Data Interface

File > Import PollEx PCB Binary

User can interface PollEx PCB Binary data(*.pdbb), if selecting File > Import PollEx PCB Binary.

PollEx BOM Features

1. Environment

PollEx BOM Environment setting methods are explained.
Setting > Environment

(1) User can define the Column to be listed in the working area. Also, user can show selected item in Define Column.
(2) When displaying Working Area, user can decide what you want to list Object basis. Above figure is based on the Ref. type. Below figure is based on the Part type.

(3) As items related to Excel Format Setting, this extension is .EBI. In order to use PollEx CP, users need to change the format of interfaced BOM data. In Setting window, if user set the path of .ebi file, it will be without setting every time. For more information about Excel Format Setup , please check the 3.3 Excel Format Setup.

2. Excel Format Setup

Because it’s different the rules of generating the BOM data for each user or company, PollEx CP might be difficult to use. PollEx CP has been set based on the Ref Name for comparison of PCB / LOGIC / BOM. User can use the PollEx CP by changing the Excel Format in Excel Format Setting window.

(1) 1 and 2 boxes, as shown in the figure, mean the same column each other. The figure above, there are six columns.
(2) If user looks at the contents of the Pop-Up window(3), some of the items have been defined, user can choose from this. If you don’t define a name, select one of the items of the Set As Str_1~3. User will be able to change the title.

(3) For each column(4), user will select one by one in the Pop-Up window. If there is data that user want to delete, select Delete at the Pop-Up window, will change the Format.
(4) Delimiter and Connector (5, 6) are functions that are used to separate one by one when some information is written in the cell. Delimiter is used when it is one by one segment. Connector is used to distinguish one by one when it is used in the bundle (For example, “C1-C10”). Delimiter is entering “, (comma)”, in the case of Connector is entering “- (dash)”.
(5) Header Line(7) means that user wants to delete only the columns user entered numbers.
(6) After you have saved the Set-up file that has been set in this way (*.EBI), you will be able to be used by calling again later. To convert the Format, click the Apply button(8).

(7) In case of the mounting verification, set the reformat in order to get only parts for mounting verification. At this time, it is set to Set as Valid Parameter (9), is filtering to valid data, it will be able to output only the data of the key-in value. If you set Set as Alternative (10), it is a flag that can confirm the presence or absence of alternative parts. Alternative parts are looking for a reference name like this part, you can see the part name of alternative parts

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