On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Bob Paddock wrote: >> >> That's another reason why, in the gEDA architecture, it makes great >> sense to maintain the information that will generate the BOM in >> project-specific "heavy" symbols. > > To a degree. Say you have a Second-Source alternative that fulfills > "form, fit, function". You don't really want to have two heavy > symbols > in your schematic, so that either can be used. Also that can again > force a change in your schematic that would be otherwise unnecessary > when a part does go obsolete, but a new "form, fit, function" one > becomes available.
You don't need to change the schematic. One way to do this is to keep a directory of second source symbols. These have the same names as the primary symbols, so swap them into the project symbol directory as needed. Post processing a generated BOM is also not difficult. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
