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[Murat Ursavaş <murat.ursavas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yep. It's about optionally placed components and their variant based 
values. Using a separate application could also do the job but I believe 
in "one information source", which is in this case the Eeschema file. In 
Altium you can edit the placement option visually and also edit (or bulk 
edit) the values regarding to the variant. Also you can define 
additional variables for the variants.

I thought it would be nice if we could have it in also KiCad.

We are managing the BOM's with this style in our company and it had had 
decreased errors drastically. Before this method the old team was 
creating variants in somewhere else (Excel file). That was too error 
prone and causes headaches even today.

May I ask what you are using for your variant management?

/// Murat Ursavaş
/// www.muratursavas.com

On 04-03-2015 00:14, Thiadmer Riemersma wrote:
> If the idea is to have a single PCB design onto which some components 
> are optionally placed, I use a separate application for that. I find 
> that preferable, because the production/assembly phase is a different 
> phase than the schematic/PCB design. (For example, when starting 
> assembly, you quickly need to also handle inventory keeping and the 
> component ordering process.)
>
> Managing variants of PCB desings that are largely the same, is a 
> completely different thing.
>
>
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