Creating a custom Altium pick and place file

Chris Carlson

| 已创建：February 21, 2017 | 已更新：December 3, 2025

I recently worked with a customer who had to generate a nonstandard pick and place file because his assembly house was using antiquated equipment and could not accept a standard Altium pick and place file. I though it might be helpful to show how to use the Bill of Material generator within Altium to create a custom report to meet such needs.

The procedure is quite simple. The first step is to open the Bill of Materials dialog and drag the parameters from the Grouped Columns down to the All Columns to provide a separate line item for each component.

Make sure the option at the bottom of the dialog is checked to Include Parameters From PCB.

Now uncheck all of the default parameters in the All Columns.

At the bottom of the All Columns parameter list you will find the Printed Board parameters listed to include the component center (in both imperial and metric units), layer, pad 1 reference, footprint reference point (generally the pick point) and rotation. Check all of these parameters that apply to your custom report.

Note that you can drag the columns into any order in the main body of the report, to present the information in any required format.

By choosing file format in the lower left area of the dialog prior to exporting you will be able to generate this custom pick and place file in a variety of file formats to include the standard CSV.

The Bill of Material generator within Altium is a very powerful report generator that can be used to create a variety of reports to include any parametrics associated with the components of your design.

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Chris 于1993年在俄勒冈州立大学获得电气与电子工程学士学位，并在生物医学、工业控制、电机驱动和国防工业领域担任设计工程师。他的经验涵盖从概念到研究、开发、设计、文档、制造、应用工程以及支持的全过程。他于2007年加入Altium，带来了他在功率电子、数据采集和控制方面的背景。

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