Hi i’ve been trying to get a BOM to generate properly for a little bit now (recently moved over from Altium) and i cant get the fields to fill in properly before it generates and i cant seem to find any info in the documentation on how to go about fixing it. Below is a screen shot of how the BOM is currently looking. I have a description field that gets filled in by some values set in other fields depending on the part (This is how ive done it in AD as well) the problem is when attempting to generate a BOM with this it doesnt fill in the values from the other fields. In the screen shot you can see the issue along with the selected part and its description as shown in the schematic editor.
My apologies for not making that clear in the original post the behaviour was the same in the exported file (screen shot below) interestingly i reran it this morning to grab this screen shot and while the majority of the fields are still not filling in its picked up the “package” field as well as the “cap_type” field. Once again appreciate any help or insight
Appreciate the confirmation that its not just a me problem or something ive setup wrong, Ive found a workaround for now as i continue to look for some more info on it. Currently if i create a new field in the part that is just equal to ${Description} It shows perfectly fine in the BOM. Im wondering if theres issues with multiple parameters in a single field in the BOM parser? (See bottom field “BOM_Description” in the below example:
Only the variable names are seen in the dialog, this is by design. But variables should be resolved in the exported BOM, and also in the preview if I remember correctly.
