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[Justin Partain <justinwpartain1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Extended source file information would be great as well (like schematic
Title, Revision Number, Comments, etc that are input into Page Settings in
EESchema). Currently, these fields are available to pull from, but not
available in the BOM .XML file.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 03:04:00PM +0000, José Eduardo S. C. Xavier wrote:
> > - BOM-generator with the possibility to specify the fields to export and
> > group References
> >    if all the exported fields match.
>
> Easily extractable from the xml BOM file (altough with xslt 'easily' is
> quite subjective :D). Anyway AFAIK python has no issues munching XML
> files
>
> > - BOM-importer (set fields of References to theyr BOM-value)
>
> Limited at the moment; only backannotation is done (for footprints),
> however that could be extended/reworked for other usages (like mass
> attribute load or something like that). backanno.cpp is the place to
> start toying with for that.
>
> > > - Possibility to manage footprints in schemata (or is this already
> > > possible?)
>
> Recently it's possible to use the footprint picker in eeschema. From
> forever you could set them as text; however be wary of mismatches
> between the netlist and the cmp file: the cmp takes from the netlist if
> there isn't already a component with that name, otherwise the value in
> the cmp wins... results: I delete a component then some time later I add
> another component with the same reference => it picks by default the
> *old* package! Maybe this changed, however. (cmp files are evil and have
> to disappear... the netlist is enough for carrying all of these info,
> already discussed to death)
>
> > > > Ya probably that will do it :S Editing the .sch in a text editor may
> > > also help..
>
> perl, awk or (please don't do that) stateful sed help with this
> kind of proposition :D
>
>
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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