At 02:56 PM 3/20/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I would like to create a Bill Of Materials from the schematic, and import
>it directly into the assembly drawing.
>
>Is there a way to do this, and could someone please help.
As others have said, there is no direct way, at least not as far as I am aware.
If one has a way of importing a text file into .DXF, then .DXF could be
imported into PCB. I'm assuming that the "assembly drawing" is to be
prepared in PCB.
It would also not be difficult to write a utility to convert a text file to
a set of string primitives to be copied onto the assembly drawing. If all
the formatting were done in a text or spreadsheet editor (including
converting tabs into spaces, which Excel can easily do), the strings could
simply be lifted from the text file, line by line, and popped into an ASCII
format PCB file, which could then be loaded and copied into the assembly
drawing.
One does not need to know much about the Protel file format to do this.
Just place a string in an empty PCB file, save it in the ASCII format, and
open it with a text editor. The ASCII database is self-documenting. You
could even do the insertion using Excel; no programming would be necessary.
But I just print separate BOMs. It takes less time and is not necessarily
less efficient.
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Abdulrahman Lomax
P.O. Box 690
El Verano, CA 95433
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