Additional Field in Placement File

[Elektroniker]

Hello everyone,

I have finished my first KICAD project (Schematic, Board, Symbol editor, Footprint editor). In the symbol editor, I have created an additional field under “Symbol Properties” in which the article numbers of our components are entered. I need this article number for the Pick&Place lists. Maybe it’s simple, but at the moment I can’t find a way to output this field under “Fabrication Outputs → Component Placements”. I am wondering if there are already solutions for this and if not, how can I find a solution?
Can anyone help me further? Thank you very much.

[craftyjon]

It is not currently possible from within KiCad.

There is a feature request you can vote for here: Allow configuration of columns/fields in component placement (position) file (#15255) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

In the meantime, one way to do this would be to export both the position file and a BOM (which can be customized) then use an external script to pull data from the BOM in to the placement file.

[Elektroniker]

Hi craftyjon,

thank you for the fast reply. It’s not nice - but it can’t be changed. Maybe in the next version. I’ll try it the way you suggested.

Thanks again.