Lorenzo, On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> > >I fact I use very few the BOM generator. > > It's meant to be used as a final reporting tool, I'm not surprised of > this... One of the most important iterative uses BOM generation is for price estimation. A BOM that is easily importable to something like Digi-key's quotation tool is important for that goal. If the BOM list was usable without masssage, I would be regenerating it every time a components are added to or removed from the schematic design to arrive at another price estimation. For this, what one really needs is the vendor, vendor part number (for the vendor price being estimated) and quantity (where quantity might be the one-up quantity multiplied by the number of boards). Importing the existing BOM into a spreadsheet, fixing up the missing fields, regenerating the BOM, importing into vendor web tool, is too much of a pain. It might be nice to be able to export simple BOM to separate files, by vendor, to do so. Maybe this is something that a separate AVL tool should, do, but what I really wanted to point out is that BOM generation is not just a final output. --brian -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [email protected] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
