--- In [email protected], "Frank Bennett" <bennet...@...> wrote: > This is exactually what the Back-Annotate button does in EEscheme, > take a look at the .STF file created by CVPCB.
Yes, it appears that the "Import .stf file" feature will do exactly what I want. The "back annotation" description confused me because I think of back-annotation as updating the schematic references based on how they may have been changed during layout. Apparantly the KiCad concept of back annotation is to add "add footprint names" back to the schematic since they were assigned in the layout tool. Does KiCad have a way of doing the "changed references" type of back annotation? > You are hinting at a more complex problem that creates a BOM > from which parts and a board price can be derived. > > Ideally in EEschema I would propose...... Choosing parts from a "Parts File" instead of a symbol library would be very nice. As a minimum, each Part record needs a IDnumber, a SymbolName, a Value and a FootPrintName. The IDNumber (ie my company's partnumber) would be the key into my company database where all the other data (vendor info, costs, etc) would be. Bob
