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HashDefineElectronics / KiCad_BOM_Wizard

This is a javascript script for creating Kicad HTML BOM.
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Footprint field #2

Closed adzenith closed 8 years ago

adzenith commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the plugin! Is there any chance you'd be able to add the ability to output the footprint field as well? I tried ROW_PART_FOOTPRINT but it didn't work, and I didn't see another way to output the footprint. Thanks!

HashDefineElectronics commented 8 years ago

Hi @adzenith sorry at the moment the plugin only extracts the user defined component fields. :disappointed: I didn't think to output the component's footprint. It shouldn't be hard to code so I'll add it to this week's update.

:smile: If you don't mind me asking, what do you do with the footprint on BOM? Is it part of your hardware review?

-Ron

adzenith commented 8 years ago

We use the footprint for two things, actually. The first is an automated system that takes the BOM and turns it into a Digikey order, and it's used to taking old-style KiCad BOMs (before they moved to the xml output). Some people are still using the old version of KiCad so I was experimenting to see if I could exactly replicate the old output.

The other thing we use the footprint for is our RFQs, to make it easy for our manufacturers to see the sizes of our components.

Thanks so much!

HashDefineElectronics commented 8 years ago

Hey @adzenith I've pushed the update to the plugin. It now output the component's footprint. I've used the tag that you posted earlier for the footprint data. __

Also, the update fixes a bug that cause the plugin to not group certain components.

If you don't mind, could you check if it works for you.

adzenith commented 8 years ago

Awesome! That was fast. I'll check it out.

adzenith commented 8 years ago

Works great! Thanks so much!