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Assembly or Inspection Documents - Sample of how to create assembly documents

Creating assembly process or inspection documents is straightforward using the Unisoft software. Component part numbers can be broken out into steps and unique colors can be assigned. Then assembly or inspection process documents and kitting labels similar to the two figures below are created.

Below we will take you through a simple sample of how this process is done.

Procedure:

There are basically 4 steps to creating assembly or inspection documents:

1. Assign Step Numbers to the part numbers on the PCB
2. Assign unique colors to the part numbers
3. Add annotation overlays to Steps (optional) 
4. Print the assembly or inspection documents

For our sample PCB assembly below first we will divide the board assembly into 4 Steps. Second unique colors will be assigned to the component part numbers in each step. Next annotation overlays will be added to the steps. Then the assembly or inspection documents will be printed.

Note: The procedure below is a brief overview of the process of assembly or inspection document creation. Contact Unisoft for more details or go to the Quick Start manual and go to section "Tutorial 1 — Creating assembly/process sheets, annotation overlays and kitting labels".

Step 1. For our PCB assembly in the figure below Step 1 is assigned to the first Part Number and Step 2 to the second part number and Step 3 to the other Part Numbers.  If desired you can further add Substeps to these Steps to further breakdown these operations.  

Note: When a PCB is first imported into the Unisoft software all part numbers are assigned to Step 1. 

Step 2. At this point either automatically or manually assign colors to part numbers and components.

Before the colors are assigned to the part numbers and components you can choose which colors you wish to use.  To do this as in the picture below first click  Color All P/N's  then click  Select Colors  then in the  Select Colors  window select the colors you want by clicking the click boxes next to the colors.

Now for example in the figure below the colors are assign automatically, so it assigned red to Step 1, green to Step 2 and so on.    To do this as in the picture below first click  Color All P/N's  then in the Select Colors  window click the assign colors setting that you wish and then click OK and the colors are assigned the the part numbers and components. 

Step 3. Optionally add annotation overlays to Steps. For example in the figure below for Step number 2 the annotation overlays named SAMPLE2-hand-insert-diodes and SAMPLE2-legend-box that are outline in red on the display are assigned to Step number 2. So when Step 2 is printed only these 2 annotation overlays will appear on that step.

Step 4. Print out the assembly or inspection documents. In the figure below all steps have been selected and the "Single page each step" format option has been selected.   If desired part number barcodes, pcb photos, silkscreen overlays and other options can be added to the documents.

The assembly or inspection document created contains all 3 Steps. As can be seen in the figure below for Step 2 in the printout the part number was assigned the color green and all the components with that part number are colored green.