Manufacturing · From design to build
Boards & BOMs
Import an Altium project and you can read the whole design: BOM, nets, placements, stackup, schematic, with no Altium seat open. The panels on this page are the app itself, running on a real board.
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Import
A project zip in, a readable design out
Drop in a zip with the PrjPcb, PcbDoc and schematic sheets, or paste a GitHub URL. The pipeline analyses the project, parses the PCB binary and renders every sheet to SVG, showing its progress as it goes.
Importing usb-mux.zip
- Extracting archive
- Analyzing project
- Parsing PCB
- Rendering schematic sheets
- Saving board
Overview
Whether the board is ready, at a glance
Before anything ships, three numbers matter: how many parts have a manufacturer part number, a supplier, a datasheet. The overview works them out from the design itself, so a board that needs more library work says so quietly, before the order does.
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Bill of materials
Grouped the way you actually read it
Placements collapse into grouped lines (quantity, value, footprint, MPN, manufacturer, supplier) with designators rolled up, so ten R0603s read as one row. Switch to the flat view when you need designator-by-designator detail. Filter to the lines still missing an MPN or a supplier, and sort them out while it's still cheap to do.
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Manufacturing exports
One click to your assembler
The BOM exports as CSV or XLSX, grouped or flat. If you build at JLCPCB, there's a dedicated export: grouped by MPN, DNP parts dropped, LCSC part numbers resolved from your supplier links. The pick & place file follows the same idea, in JLC's CPL format, coordinates in millimetres, ready to upload.
Export → JLC BOM
LCSC numbers come from your supplier links; nothing retyped.
Assembly variants
Each build of the board, counted separately
A board with fit variants stays one board. Each variant carries its own BOM line count and its own do-not-place list, and both the BOM and pick & place tabs let you pick the variant before exporting, so the lite build never accidentally orders the parts of the full one.
Assembly variants · usb-mux
142BOM lines
every option fitted
121BOM lines
USB-PD section unfitted
BOM and pick & place exports are per-variant; the lite build never orders the full build's parts.
Nets
Follow a signal to every pin it touches
Every net, with its terminal count, aliases, source sheets and pin types. Open one and the terminal table shows each connected pin (component, pin number, pin name, electrical type) without opening the schematic.
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Schematic
The schematic, readable without an Altium seat
Every sheet is rendered to SVG at import. Hovering a symbol shows its designator, footprint and parameters; hovering a wire shows the net and its terminals; pins carry their electrical type, colour-coded. Colleagues without an Altium licence can review the design from their own desk.
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Pick & place
Placements, ready for the machine
Top and bottom placements with centroids and rotation, filterable by layer and variant. Exports as CSV or XLSX, sorted if your assembler prefers designator order.
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Layer stack
The stackup, drawn to scale
A proportional cross-section of the physical stack (copper, dielectric, mask, paste) beside the full layer table with materials and thicknesses in mils and millimetres. The board's construction, readable in one look.
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Hierarchy
Multi-sheet designs keep their shape
Top-level sheets, sheet symbols and repeating channels as an expandable tree. A hierarchical design with multiplied channels shows how many instances exist, and where they come from.
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LLM context
Let an AI read the board with you
Pick a component and Sideband writes a markdown report of its connections: every pin, every net, every neighbour one hop away, with power nets excludable so the signal story stays legible. Paste it into Claude or ChatGPT and the model has the facts to reason from.
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