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Use a Project as a Part inside another Project BOM

Open LuanVorle opened this issue 4 months ago • 1 comments

I have a "base" Project used in several other Projects. I want to use this base project as a Part inside the other Projects. How can I do this? Thank you all

LuanVorle avatar Aug 18 '25 22:08 LuanVorle

Hi LuanVorle, I think you should move this to Discussions because this is not a bug or a enhancement proposal for Part-DB. And please close this issue.

But let me try to help you anyways: In the project view you can create a build of the project (I sort all my builds into a category called PCBA (I also have a PCB category with the unassembled raw PCBs). If you have already a project defined you can edit this project and associate the build instance of the project (which is a part itself with the tag "project-build") here: Image

This will open the new part page and will allow you to create a new part which is the project-build instance of the project. You can see this in the extended info of the created part. Image

After saving the new part you can go back to the Projects page and should now see that the part is associated with the project. Image

Now I add all PCBA parts, case and other mechanic parts and cables to the BOM of my device project. I know this is not a very precise description but maybe it guides you into the right direction.

I would agree to leave this issue as an open issue if you rephrase it and say that the project feature has to be better documented.

mkne avatar Aug 21 '25 11:08 mkne