What is Assembly Assistant?

The Assembly Assistant application, available in an Altium workspace, provides a browser-based project assembly tool for advanced interaction between the project's detailed BOM data and its 2D/3D assembly view. By bringing these two related sources of assembly data together, the Assembly Assistant delivers an integrated tool that allows assemblers to check and work through the board assembly process within one convenient location.

For those checking a board's assembly prior to manufacture or engaged in the process of manually assembling boards for prototypes, the Assembly tool provides the graphical and component part information for stepping through the assembly process. This removes dependence on traditional–and potentially error-prone–assembly processes such as manually checking between assembly and BOM printout sheets. The BOM Assembly tool also offers a full set of shortcut keys for its assembly process actions.