Change variant of BOM part depending on parameters of main part

[NotCobaltDragon]

I have something I want to implement but I don't know how to start or which way is the correct way.

For context, I have products that I sale, they are highly customizable. For this example, I sell a video projector, my highly customizable projector would have the following options:

• Low resolution / High resolution
• Video Input(s): HDMI, VGA, S-Video (each can be checked/unchecked)
• Magnification at the output: 1x, 2x or 5x

Behind the scene, I have a huge number of possible combinations, so ideally I would have a modular build order or something similar

I was thinking of having the part "projector" with assembly. Have part parameters with all the options mentioned above, depending on the selection, adjust some part variants and make a main build order out of it.

How would you solve this ? Thank you in advance for your help !

[SchrodingersGat]

The way that the build order works, it would require a concrete "part" to be built.

If you wanted, you could have a "generic" part, which has multiple "optional" BOM line items. Then, at the build order step, you can (manually) select which items to install into the generated assembly?

[NotCobaltDragon]

Indeed, but I'm not a big fan of this solution because it's very user error prone.

Would you think that is doable to make a one page UI "modular part configurator" every time a build order is created for a particular modular part.

I just realized while writing this, it would mean that the configurator would create the part in order to make the BO function.
I am maybe better off making each part by hand and utilize part templates.

[SchrodingersGat]

I am maybe better off making each part by hand and utilize part templates.

Yes :) I think that's the cleanest way, even if it's a bit more work at the outset