All of DXP and the reasons for it's development are baffling to me. I refuse to use it.
They throw away a good program, push out a pc of junk which is initially entirely non-functional, and then pump us (for free) for details on how it should work. what is the current las vegas betting line on SP7 for 99SE ? Dennis Saputelli Rob Young wrote: > > Altium, please explain the logic in no longer providing a quantity column > in BOM outputs or allowing more than one designator per line. What could > have possibly possessed you guys to remove the quantity column in DXP's BOM > formats! I am 99% convinced that a quantity option is not in DXP as I have > posted this to several forums and in direct emails to Altium with no reply > from them. So I must now assume that there is no way to derive a quantity > of a particular component in DXP! You can't possibly expect someone to > count line by line to find out how many 0.1uF caps are on a board with over > 1500 components not to mention how many pages the BOM will span with one > designator per line. While not perfect as Don has suggested, the "Protel > Format" in P99SE was workable. With a few more tweaks on Altium's part, it > could have been a very good BOM output, but now you guys have removed it all > together! > > Please consider putting the "Protel Format" BOM or something similar back > into DXP. I personally can't seem to work with the current BOM outputs in > DXP with their unweildly number of pages. I seriously would have thought > that more users would have complained about this, so perhaps I am just being > nitpicky, but it just seems like such a basic operation for a BOM output. > > This is one of the few remaining hurdles left for me in using DXP for an > actual project. I'm sure I could resort to using an Excel VB script such as > Don has suggested, but while not perfect, the Protel Format has always > suited my purposes just fine. > > Rob > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Karavidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:32 PM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Quantity Column in DXP's BOM output > > > Please do!! :) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Don Mayfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:04 PM > > > To: Protel EDA Forum > > > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Quantity Column in DXP's BOM output > > > > > > > > > Hi Rob, > > > > > > Yes it is a nuisance that we cannot get a breakdown of component > > > quantities, even the Protel > > > format is not always perfect. So, we here use an Excel VB > > > script I wrote > > > to process the BOM, > > > in fact it can select multiple xls files, add a quantity, > > > select fields > > > to match by and select fields to > > > output to a final "project" BOM. Its fairly basic but seems > > > to work. I > > > could make this available > > > if no other soultion is found. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Rob Young wrote: > > > > > > >I would like to make an attempt to use DXP on some "real > > > work" despite > > > >some of the "show stoppers" I have listed on the various forums and > > > >sent to Altium, however there is one item that I have not > > > been able to > > > >resolve yet that is very important in my relationship with assembly > > > >houses. That would getting the BOM to list a quantity used for each > > > >part value like in P99SE's "Protel Format". > > > > > > > >I would very much appreciate it if anyone could help me find this > > > >feature in DXP or if it doesn't exist, maybe Altium would like to > > > >comment that this is planned for a future service pack. > > > > > > > >Rob > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Don Mayfield > > > Anglo-Australian Observatory > > > 167 Vimiera Rd > > > Eastwood > > > NSW 2122 > > > Australia > > > Ph. 61-2-9372-4836 > > > Fax. 61-2-9372-4880 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- ___________________________________________________________________________ www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Integrated Controls, Inc. tel: 415-647-0480 2851 21st Street fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
