> On Feb 5, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Thor-Arne <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > From: Dan Walmsley > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 4:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Kicad-developers] Bill of Materials Generator Feedback > > Hello, > > 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. > > Are you planning to change how this works in the future, I would have > though most people need a simple CSV output with > > Reference, QTY, Value, Footprint, Datasheet > > 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. > > This should just work out of the box. > > 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. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
