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[Karl Schmidt <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK the BOM stuff is driving me nuts..

There once was a way to get an XML BOM out of kicad - I was just sitting down to write a script to 
deal with it and I see it is no longer there. (Imagine the painful sound of a wolf howling)..

The reason it is needed:

The current BOM export uses default field headers ( field1, field2 etc ) instead of supplying the 
name of the field.  I could write some nasty script to parse the schematic.sch file, but it is my 
understanding that the format will soon change.

The script I want to write would take the source data, then instantiate columns as needed based on 
the custom-field-names (other than 'reference, 'value', and  footprint.)  and spit out a usable 
list.tvs that I can pull into gunemeric.


I would also like to pull in the doc link, but that does not appear to live in schematic.sch but 
only in the library.dcm file...




Application: Eeschema
Version: (2013-dec-23)-testing
Build: wxWidgets 2.8.12 (no debug,Unicode,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC 4.7.2,wx 
containers,compatible with 2.6)
Platform: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Boost version: 1.53.0
Options: USE_PCBNEW_NANOMETRES=ON
         KICAD_GOST=OFF
         USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
         USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
         KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON




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