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[Strontium <strntydog@xxxxxxxxx>]

This looks really nice, this would be awesome if it allowed you to edit 
the BOM as well, for example, your line 3, change 0.1uf to 1uf and C1, 
C7, C8, C9, C10 and C16 all change their value in the schematic to 
match.  Obviously there are things you wouldnt be able to edit, such as 
Reference and Qty, but everything else should be editable.

It would make keeping component annotations orderly very simple and bulk 
edits very very simple.

Steven

On 14/02/17 14:20, Oliver Walters wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been working on a BOM exporter built into KiCad (in addition to 
> the external BOM script functionality that already exists).
>
> It's not ready yet to be merged but I am showing the progress here to 
> get any input and in case anyone else is working on a similar feature.
>
> Here's a screenshot of the current tool (launched from eeschema)
>
> http://i.imgur.com/nb3mqqx.png
>
> Features that are implemented thus far:
> - Extract all component fields
> - Group components based on user-selectable fields
> - Show conflicts when groups cannot be merged
> - Show/hide various columns
> - Sort part references in natural fashion, e.g. C99 < C100
> - CSV export
> - TSV export
> - HTML export
>
> Features still to be implemented:
> - Sort by column (ascending, descending)
> - Save BOM preferences to project file
> - Add filters to each column to include/exclude groups by wildcard or 
> regex
> - Back-annotate component data (bulk update all components in a group)
>
> So, thoughts? I feel that a proper BOM tool has been sorely missing 
> from Kicad thus far.
>
> If I continue to work on this is it something that is likely to be merged?
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
>
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