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KiCad automation utility
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[HOW] to execute custom bom export script #581

Closed OSHW-Rico closed 6 months ago

OSHW-Rico commented 7 months ago

What do you want to achieve?

For our production process we have some custom scripts which are normally executed via the schematics editor/tools/create BOM. Is it possible to do that from kibot? I did not see a "custom scripts" section or similar.

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set-soft commented 7 months ago

I think this is more or less the same as #109

So the answer is not. You can always run the scripts before or after KiBot.

What are these scripts doing that can't be done using the internal BoM?

OSHW-Rico commented 7 months ago

Yeah I can for sure, but I would need to be in the correct python environment, things which are handled automatically when done from the UI I'd guess.

It's primary use is to generate the pick and place files. We have a database library where each part is a symbol for itself and carries some information for the assembly process. In the end it's just some boolean logic and a text export.

The workflow is back from kicad 5 where it was not possible to access symbol custom field values from the pcb, so it was necessary to to it from the schematic and lookup the position in the PCB. Maybe that has changed since.

Rico

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I think this is more or less the same as #109

So the answer is not. You can always run the scripts before or after KiBot.

What are these scripts doing that can't be done using the internal BoM?

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set-soft commented 7 months ago

With KiBot you can generate pick & place files from the BoM output, there are some examples to generate XYRS files.