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Re: Feature request: Extended BOM (Part, Footprint, etc.) management

 

I was thinking in something similar. Did you improve your code or have you
been using it?

Maybe it is possible to add it to the CvPCB.

2014-08-20 15:30 GMT+01:00 Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>:

> It is already possible to assigned footprints in schematic. Le the other
> developers look on your requests that they will be in better position to
> understand it.
> ________________________________________
> From: Oliver Meier [h2obrain@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 August 2014 16:26
> To: Mário Luzeiro
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Feature request: Extended BOM (Part,
> Footprint, etc.) management
>
> I think it's easier to edit the schema in python , that's why I already
> wrote those scripts.
> When I start a new project I draw the schema and give every every
> component a value.
> I think just to write ?Ohm or so is confusing in the end.
> What I wanted to request as features was :
> - BOM-generator with the possibility to specify the fields to export and
> group References
>    if all the exported fields match.
> - BOM-importer (set fields of References to theyr BOM-value)
> - Possibility to manage footprints in schemata (or is this already
> possible?)
>
>
> On 20.08.2014 15:39, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> > Ya probably that will do it :S Editing the .sch in a text editor may
> also help..
> > Is it is curious when I am using KiCad as a software/user I forget about
> the capability to edit external files.. (as maybe most of the regular users
> will don't do it too.. )
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=
> ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Wayne Stambaugh [
> stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 20 August 2014 15:28
> > To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Feature request: Extended BOM (Part,
> Footprint, etc.) management
> >
> > Have you tried using find and replace?  It seems to me putting 10K into
> > the find control and 12K5 into the replace control should do the trick.
> >   You can either replace one at a time by clicking the replace button for
> > each found item or you can do it all at once by clicking the replace
> > all.  It's certainly seems easier than writing a Python script.  Not
> > that you have to do it that way but it is an option.
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