Look into BOM format - Githubissues

adamyosua commented 3 years ago

I want to be able to easily order these parts. I tried creating a BOM within eeschema but it seems like they are plugins that need some effort to get to work and render the digikey links. There is also a digikey list that I can make which seems helpful but I don't think I can share it publicly. I can export to csv if need be.

In this issue I should figure out the best way to handle it.

adamyosua commented 3 years ago

For now I am just going to manually make a digikey list by looking at the schematic.

derekbelsky102 commented 3 years ago

I updated a BOM for the latest schematic. Please take a look at the following folder: kicad/hw/designs/stm32_breakout/stm32l_lqfp32/rev0/BOM/

I added a Part_Number field for each symbol and exported using 'Tools->Generate Bill of Materials' then I selected the fourth BOM plugin 'bom2csv' and that worked.

It gets messy if parts have many fields like the STM32 part had several more fields probably for simulation but I just deleted those.

I had a couple of manual steps:

Even though it says it was a csv, I didn't see the csv extension so I added that.
I moved it manually over to BOM folder since default location is wherever the project is.

If that file looks reasonable and we are happy with this way of doing it then we can close this ticket and repeat this procedure for future boards.

derekbelsky102 / kicad

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