On 21 December 2016 at 18:59, jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
FYI, a tool (I am thinking you are talking about a tool which manages a > BOM) which works directly > with KiCad schematic files is not a good idea. > > You really underestimate the complexity of a full complex hierarchical > project using parts with > multiple units per package. > > The reasonable approach is to parse the netlist. > The tools I use at the moment are /scripts/bom-in-python/bom_csv_grouped_by_value.py (in KiCad source) and KiField <https://github.com/xesscorp/KiField> which both work from the schematic information. There are tonnes of other BOM tools and they all seem to use the schematic as the single source of truth.
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