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[Miguel Angel Ajo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!, thanks!, 

Yesterday I was struggling through the same problem trying to generate
some documentation for a project we must assemble & deliver soon.

I still miss some fields (user inserted) that we (Tome Verissimo, hi!) 
include in the schematic parts, like supplier codes, etc..

At this moment, the .csv BOM generator can build a CSV with user fields,
but if you have variable fields in your parts

part1:
   field_name_A: "aaa content"
   field_name_X: "xxx content"


part2:
   field_name_A: "aaa content"
   field_name_B: "bob content"

   field_name_X: "xxx content"


the field names get lost in export, and the the columns move back and forth across the rows.

So I was thinking to add an extra .CSV writer that takes care of this, and, may be even
some kind of json writer, that writes a dictionary that can be used for interoperability/scripts.

I'd love to have scripting in eeschema, but yet I must get the full stack of pcbnew documented 
properly, and eeschema is in the refactoring queue AFAIK.

Greetings,
Mike.






Miguel Angel Ajo
http://www.nbee.es (http://www.nbee.es/)
+34911407752
skype: ajoajoajo


On Wednesday, 17 de April de 2013 at 17:02, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

> On 04/15/2013 06:11 PM, Stefan Helmert wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > the internal BOM generator has too much bugs. I had to use the python plugins, but they are generating only incompatible XML Files or CSV Files without the user defined entries.
> > 
> > Now I designed a XSL script, which converts the generated XML Partlist in a CSV file for Libre Office or Open Office. It is very easy to use. You can specify it as a plugin for KiCad
> > 
> > It searches for all field names. Generates the table head out of this names and assignes the table entries.
> > 
> > Here you can have the script. It would be a pleasure for me to find the file in the next KiCad version in the pluigns directory.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Stefan Helmert
> 
> Committed in revision 4100 with changes.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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