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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Feb 5, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Thor-Arne <lp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The BOM feature you are missing is in “pcbnew, File->Fabrication outputs->BOM file”.

The PCB file may be missing parts which are put on the schematic but don’t have footprints.

BOMs should come from the schematic.

-a










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> From: Dan Walmsley
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 4:59 PM
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Kicad-developers] Bill of Materials Generator Feedback
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> Hello,
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>     We have been using Kicad for the last 3 projects at my company, and we have found the Bill of materials generation to be probably the least intuitive feature to use.
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>    Are you planning to change how this works in the future, I would have though most people need a simple CSV output with
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> Reference, QTY, Value, Footprint, Datasheet
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> We really couldn't understand all the stuff about plugins, scripting, etc, and several of the examples we found online didn't really work well either.
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> This should just work out of the box.
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> However we would also like to say that apart from that the 3 projects we have done in Kicad have gone really well and we are very happy with the schematic editor and pcb layout tools.
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