Add Component Type to BOM

Manufacturing
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I don’t think there is a way, but I thought I would check. Our manufacturing system requires the BOM split between SM and TH parts, this stems from the different areas of the company involved in the two different processes.

I already have a script that uses the legacy export “kicad-cli sch export python-bom [–help] [–output OUTPUT_FILE] INPUT_FILE” along with a custom python script to generate the correct BOMs as this file gives me access to the component type field, set in the footprint.

I wanted to move over to job sets, which on the whole are working well, but the BOM exporter doesn’t seem to allow access to the field I need. Is there a way to add it?

Thanks

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I’ve just re-read my script and it actually opens the footprint file included in the XML and checks if it’s an SM component there. I should be able to do the same by adding the footprint to the BOM export and opening the footprint file manually.