Parts and Vendors... that's the one I was thinking of, my mistake I
thought it was a shareware prog.
Andy
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
Jeff Kaskey <jkaskey@...> wrote:
FWIW, that's the way I do it. I am using Parts&Vendors (neither open source nor free, and win-only, but reasonably inexpensive) and I dump my KiCad BOM into it and output my purchase lists, kits, etc. Let each tool do what it does best, do not expect KiCad to become an MRP system.
Would love to see an open-source P&V-type database tool, but it is no small amount of work. Besides the database design itself, the UI is important in making the tool usable at all. You deal with a lot of parts in a BOM, you need a UI that lets you do things quickly.
-j
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From: Robert <birmingham_spider@...>
To: kicad-users@...
Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Multi-Part Components
?
IIRC there was a posting many months ago regarding a shareware stock /
parts system that provided quite a lot of functions and was easy to use.
Maybe someone can remember the name.
Funny you should mention that. I've been working on my own open-source
database for kicad (files in the kicad user group, update following
soon), and that's what got me thinking about this. I think you have
the answer though. I just export the receptacle in the BOM and the
database adds the correct crimp terminal strip to the parts list.
Thanks,
Robert.
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