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Hardware design files for the Rover project.
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BOM Management Tools/Guides #22

Open ausshir opened 7 years ago

ausshir commented 7 years ago

Ordering parts and combining them with some contract assembly places can be a pain. We need a more consistent way to track what/where/how much of each part we buy at the design stage instead of afterwards..

MacroFab Specs

Part X Y Rotation Side Type XSize YSize Value Footprint Populate MPN
R1 1200.00 900.00 180 1 1 40.0 20.0 1K 0402-RES 1 MF-CAP-0402-27pF

Note that MacroFab seems to be able to figure out the positioning stuff automatically from KiCad files. Only the Italic ones seem to be needed.

PCBWay Specs

No. Manufacturer Manufacturer PN / Description Distributor PN Package Value Qty RefDefs Type Note
1 C-EUC0402_TI 0402 220nF 31 C1-C14，C16-C46，C137 SMT

Since PCBWay is not fully automated like MacroFab, as long as some of the info is there we should be able to sort it out. For this reason I think we should aim for the first format.

ausshir commented 7 years ago

I made the recent parts order using https://github.com/Jeff-Ciesielski/Boms-Away It's a nice portable python2 app using wxpython and sqlalchemy. Works well on my setup and for my workflow to keep things simple and save all supplier info in KiCad projects.

Lots of other options here as well (and more interesting library management tools): https://github.com/xesscorp/kicad-3rd-party-tools