BOM setting presets in 8.0

Schematic
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I’m trying to use the new “Generate Bill of Materials” feature in version 8.0. After adjusting the BOM settings, I save them as a preset. But when I create a new project, my saved preset is not available. It looks like the BOM setting presets are saved with the project and can’t be used in other projects.

That doesn’t seem right to me - I don’t need a bunch of different BOM presets for a single project, but I do want to use my custom settings in all my projects. Am I missing something?

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It looks like the BOM setting presets are saved with the project and can’t be used in other projects.

Yes (for save inside project). No (for last half of sentence).

Am I missing something?

Yes. Try to execute the following steps:

  1. save the BOM preset in your first project
  2. open the next project, open the schematic
  3. in schematic editor: File–>schematic setup
  4. in bottom left of schematic setup dialog: click on import settings from another project
  5. in the import dialog enable the BOM presets
3

That works, thanks for the tip!

Still, it seems like a bit of a long way round to do that every time instead of making it a global setting. If I had designed KiCad… :slight_smile: