On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:07:12 +1000, you wrote: >>Well you could have downloaded my partlist generator from Protel BOM csv >>files for years.
>I don't recall seeing too many references to it over the years - I do >forget stuff so maybe you gave mentioned it. But if someone asked me I >wouldn't have known. I'm sure I have mentioned it here although not recently - don't have any reason to push and it is only some awk script to process the .csv files. Currently here http://www.harrt.dsl.pipex.com/electron.html (ResCAD is also cool if you are a circuit designer). >The issue I suppose you are really getting here is the fact that the CSV >formats are not fixed-format any longer so complicating post >processing. What I'm getting at is I can open an existing 99SE project and only with great difficulty generate a useable partlist with the information it already contains. Another nail pinning 99SE on my system for eternity. >However, since the header row is included in the CSV file the extra >processing to extract the format of the following data is trivial - Not that trivial. >We have been told that there will be changes to the report generators. I >would hope that this will include the ability to save and recall settings >and even recall a saved setting as a process parameter to allow a BOM to be >generated with a single keystroke/menu/button. Yes when I found the "Output Jobs" menu item I thought I had an epiphany. I had been doing it all wrong and this is where you configure all those things and they would be remembered and there would be a one click "do it" button. Sadly I was wrong. >Another point - again we find that Protel will produce an external data >file and then insist on opening that. When I produce a CSV it is very >unlikely that I want Excel to open it straight away. I find this intensely >annoying. I don't have Excel or any Microsoft applications installed - I find it intensely annoying that DXP has a button named Excel. >>Another issue for which maybe someone knows the answer. How do you globally >>add a schematic component parameter? Or come to that how you globaly edit >>them - they don't appear in the inspector. > >The query: >IsParameter And (ParameterName Like 'Text Field1') Ahh, ok I'll investigate. Slightly worrying because I notice sheets also have parameters but from a quick test it seems they don't count as parameters for IsParameter (no global editing of sheet parameters then?). Cheers, Terry. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
