Altair PollEx User guide

Brand: Altair

Model: PollEx

Type: User guide

Altair PollEx is a robust and powerful tool designed to streamline and enhance your PCB design and manufacturing processes. With its comprehensive set of capabilities, PollEx empowers you to efficiently create and manage complex printed circuit boards, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and optimal performance.

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Intellectual Property Rights Notice

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Usage of pre-release versions is strictly limited to non-production purposes.

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Altair intellectual property rights are protected under U.S. and international laws and treaties.

Additionally, Altair software may be protected by patents or other intellectual property rights. All other

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ALTAIR ENGINEERING INC. Proprietary and Confidential. Contains Trade Secret Information.

Not for use or disclosure outside of Altair and its licensed clients. Information contained in Altair

software shall not be decompiled, disassembled, “unlocked”, reverse translated, reverse engineered,

or publicly displayed or publicly performed in any manner. Usage of the software is only as explicitly

permitted in the end user software license agreement. Copyright notice does not imply publication.

Third party software licenses

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Altair Engineering Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates reserve the right to embed software security

mechanisms in the Software for the purpose of detecting the installation and/or use of illegal copies of the

Software. The Software may collect and transmit non-proprietary data about those illegal copies. Data collected

will not include any customer data created by or used in connection with the Software and will not be provided

to any third party, except as may be required by law or legal process or to enforce our rights with respect to

the use of any illegal copies of the Software. By using the Software, each user consents to such detection and

collection of data, as well as its transmission and use if an illegal copy of the Software is detected. No steps

may be taken to avoid or detect the purpose of any such security mechanisms.

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Technical Support

Altair provides comprehensive software support via web FAQs, tutorials, training classes, telephone, and

e-mail.

Altair One Customer Portal

Altair One (https://altairone.com/) is Altair’s customer portal giving you access to product downloads, a

Knowledge Base, and customer support. We strongly recommend that all users create an Altair One

account and use it as their primary means of requesting technical support.

Once your customer portal account is set up, you can directly get to your support page via this link:

www.altair.com/customer-support/

Altair Community

Participate in an online community where you can share insights, collaborate with colleagues and

peers, and find more ways to take full advantage of Altair’s products.

Visit the Altair Community (https://community.altair.com/community) where you can access

online discussions, a knowledge base of product information, and an online form to contact

Support. These valuable resources help you discover, learn and grow, all while having the

opportunity to network with fellow explorers like yourself.

Altair Training Classes

Altair’s in-person, online, and self-paced trainings provide hands-on introduction to our products,

focusing on overall functionality. Trainings are conducted at our corporate and regional offices or at your

facility.

For more information please visit: https://learn.altair.com/

If you are interested in training at your facility, please contact your account manager for more details.

If you do not know who your account manager is, please contact your local support office and they will

connect you with your account manager.

Telephone and E-mail

If you are unable to contact Altair support via the customer portal, you may reach out to technical

support via phone or e-mail. Use the following table as a reference to locate the support office for your

region.

When contacting Altair support, please specify the product and version number you are using along

with a detailed description of the problem. It is beneficial for the support engineer to know what type

of workstation, operating system, RAM, and graphics board you have, so please include that in your

communication.

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Location

Telephone

E-mail

Australia

+61 3 9866 5557

anzsupport@altair.com

Brazil

+55 113 884 0414

br_support@altair.com

Canada

+1 416 447 6463

support@altairengineering.ca

China

+86 400 619 6186

support@altair.com.cn

France

+33 141 33 0992

francesupport@altair.com

Germany

+49 703 162 0822

hwsupport@altair.de

Greece

+30 231 047 3311

eesupport@altair.com

India

+91 806 629 4500

+1 800 425 0234 (toll free)

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Israel

israelsupport@altair.com

Italy

+39 800 905 595

support@altairengineering.it

Japan

+81 3 6225 5830

support@altairjp.co.jp

Malaysia

+60 32 742 7890

aseansupport@altair.com

Mexico

+52 55 5658 6808

mx-support@altair.com

New Zealand

+64 9 413 7981

anzsupport@altair.com

South Africa

+27 21 831 1500

support@altair.co.za

South Korea

+82 704 050 9200

support@altair.co.kr

Spain

+34 910 810 080

support-spain@altair.com

Sweden

+46 46 460 2828

support@altair.se

United Kingdom

+44 192 646 8600

[email protected]r.com

United States

+1 248 614 2425

hwsupport@altair.com

If your company is being serviced by an Altair partner, you can find that information on our web site at

https://www.altair.com/PartnerSearch/.

See www.altair.com for complete information on Altair, our team, and our products.

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Contents

Intellectual Property Rights Notice .................................................................................... ii

Technical Support ............................................................................................................. vi

Conventions Used in this Guide .......................................................................................... 9

PollEx BOM ....................................................................................................................... 10

1. PollEx BOM Window ...................................................................................................... 10

Excel Data Interface ........................................................................................................ 11

1. ASCII BOM Interface..................................................................................................... 11

2. MS/Excel BOM Interface ................................................................................................ 13

3. PollEx PCB Binary Data Interface .................................................................................... 14

PollEx BOM Features ........................................................................................................ 15

1. Environment ................................................................................................................ 15

2. Excel Format Setup ...................................................................................................... 17

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Conventions Used in this Guide

This guide uses the following conventions:

Bold

Italic

All commands from the user interface. Options, menus, buttons, and dialog box names are

bolded, but not italicized.

Example: On the Welcome screen, click Next.

Courier

The path of a program or folder; a web address; a file name or component; text that the

user is expected to enter.

Example: The default path is C:\Program Files\Altair\2020\PollEx

Questions regarding the document may be directed to PollEx team at PollEx_support_k[email protected].

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PollEx BOM

PollEx BOM is BOM parsing and formatting tool. It is designed to BOM parsing and formatting process of

virtually any Excel or ASCII file. However, PollEx BOM is widely used to viewer program for PCB / LOGIC /

BOM data comparisons in PollEx CP rather than reviewing BOM data in PollEx BOM.

1. PollEx BOM Window

PollEx BOM tool’s window is consisted with Menu bar, Tool bar, Working area, Excel format setting

window, Status bar.

The interfaced excel is displayed in Working Area. Also, user can set excel format in Excel Format Setting

Window.

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Excel Data Interface

Support 3 type’s data interface in PollEx BOM.

1) ASCII BOM Interface

2) MS/Excel BOM Interface

3) PollEx PCB Binary Data Interface

1. ASCII BOM Interface

BOM data is extracted intermittently in ASCII format from the EDA tool. In this case, user can interface

ASCII BOM data.

File > Import BOM > ASCII BOM

User can interface ASCII BOM data, if selecting File > Import BOM > ASCII BOM.

Delete after you have specified the unnecessary column.

Click with the right mouse button > Delete Column

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Set as Reference, Part, Type etc. after you have specified the area for setting such as Reference

name/Part name/Type, etc.

Click with the right mouse button > Set As Reference/Part/Type, etc.

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Pressing Get Report button, extract report in this form.

Tool > Get final Report

2. MS/Excel BOM Interface

File > Import BOM > MS/Excel BOM

User can interface MS/Excel BOM data, if selecting File > Import BOM > MS/Excel BOM.

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User can review in PollEx CP if entering a few items in Excel Format Setting Window.

3. PollEx PCB Binary Data Interface

File > Import PollEx PCB Binary

User can interface PollEx PCB Binary data(*.pdbb), if selecting File > Import PollEx PCB Binary.

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PollEx BOM Features

1. Environment

PollEx BOM Environment setting methods are explained.

Setting > Environment

① User can define the Column to be listed in the working area. Also, user can show selected item

in Define Column.

② When displaying Working Area, user can decide what you want to list Object basis. Above figure

is based on the Ref. type. Below figure is based on the Part type.

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③ As items related to Excel Format Setting, this extension is *.EBI. In order to use PollEx CP,

users need to change the format of interfaced BOM data. In Setting window, if user set the path

of *.ebi file, it will be without setting every time. For more information about Excel Format

Setup, please check the 3.3 Excel Format Setup.

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2. Excel Format Setup

Because it's different the rules of generating the BOM data for each user or company, PollEx CP might

be difficult to use. PollEx CP has been set based on the Ref Name for comparison of PCB / LOGIC / BOM.

User can use the PollEx CP by changing the Excel Format in Excel Format Setting window.

① ① and ② boxes, as shown in the figure, mean the same column each other. The figure above,

there are six columns.

② If user looks at the contents of the Pop-Up window(③), some of the items have been defined,

user can choose from this. If you don't define a name, select one of the items of the Set As

Str_1~3. User will be able to change the title.

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③ For each column(④), user will select one by one in the Pop-Up window. If there is data that user

want to delete, select Delete at the Pop-Up window, will change the Format.

④ Delimiter and Connecter (⑤, ⑥) are functions that are used to separate one by one when some

information is written in the cell. Delimiter is used when it is one by one segment. Connector is

used to distinguish one by one when it is used in the bundle (For example, "C1-C10"). Delimiter

is entering ", (comma)", in the case of Connector is entering "- (dash)".

⑤ Header Line(⑦) means that user wants to delete only the columns user entered numbers.

⑥ After you have saved the Set-up file that has been set in this way (*.EBI), you will be able to

be used by calling again later. To convert the Format, click the Apply button(⑧).

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⑦ In case of the mounting verification, set the reformat in order to get only parts for mounting

verification. At this time, it is set to Set as Valid Parameter (⑨), is filtering to valid data, it

will be able to output only the data of the key-in value. If you set Set as Alternative (⑩), it is

a flag that can confirm the presence or absence of alternative parts. Alternative parts are looking

for a reference name like this part, you can see the part name of alternative parts

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