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This section will encompass any features that we use frequently, but are beyond the scope of a basic introductory tutorial.
ActiveBOMs
This is Altium’s integrated Bill of Materials system that automatically checks all suppliers via Octopart! See Active BOMs for the full tutorial.
Variants
Variants are a way to indicate different manners in which a PCB may be populated with components for different use cases. For our purposes, they are generally used to indicate what components are DNP/DNI (Do Not Populate/Place/Install), which is useful in making sure that we don’t accidentally populate the wrong things when assembling boards.
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