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[Thiadmer Riemersma <thiadmer.riemersma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Oliver,

One option that I would like is to have a column with package names, rather
than (or in addition to) footprint names. So that
Capacitor_SMD:0805_Handsoldering becomes simply 0805. That is easier for
the stock management and ordering process.

And as others have already observed: a BOM tools sits in the middle of
workflow. The software to prepare our pick & place machine has a BOM
editor. Our ordering/inventory system has a BOM editor too. So what I think
is important is flexible export *and* flexible import. So that changes made
to the BOM can be imported into KiCad and back-annotated in the schematic.

Regards,
Thiadmer

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, Martin!
>
> Your work looks very promising.
> I am running very similar stuff "manually" (by executing .sql scripts)
> around my commercial tool.
>
> Is there an ODBC in between your frontend code and the Firebird database
> you use?
> I am asking because the data here sits in a MariaDB storage.
>
> Regards,
>
> Clemens
>
> On 2017-02-14 08:55, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 February 2017 07:20:23 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.
> >>
> > I am working on a standalone tool which extracts component field values
> from
> > schematics
> > and looks-up the component, footprints and BOM-values in a database:
> > http://mseide-msegui.sourceforge.net/pics/msekicadbom.png
> > Component fields can be composed by macros:
> > http://mseide-msegui.sourceforge.net/pics/component.png
> > and be based on a component-kind-template:
> > http://mseide-msegui.sourceforge.net/pics/componentkind.png
> >
> > MSEkicadBOM can be used to produce the various production and
> documentation
> > files:
> > http://mseide-msegui.sourceforge.net/pics/production.png
> > http://mseide-msegui.sourceforge.net/pics/docuset.png
> >
> > The code is here:
> > https://gitlab.com/mseide-msegui/mseuniverse/tree/master/tools/kicad/bom
> >
> > Martin
> >
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