> It looks like OOo 2.0 is a good tool for creating this type of > document, but I'm not up to speed with it yet. So I'll do it with OOo in a > rough-and-ready way, and leave the formal title block layout for later. > Writing in OpenDoc format will protect the future maintainability of the > documents.
Speaking as one who works for a electronics contract maufacturer make sure that you can also produce a simple csv file of your BOM with desiginator(s),part and mfg and if you can handle a sub for that part. In Bitworks's case the OO doc would be fine as we do OO here. But you should make sure your format dosen't break or become complicated when you export it to a word doc or pdf. A good, clear BOM with no ambuguities will help lots when you go to have this thing quoted and produced. Every CM is going to have thier own way of bringing your BOM into thier system and they pretty much all involve a human doing manual lookups of each part to cross ref it to parts that are already in the CMs system and breaking out the things they will have to order. In fact you may want to query the CM's you plan to shop it out to and see what they would prefer as the format of a BOM for a quote. -- Richard A. Smith _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
