“Hobbyist” question: I have a field “Designation” with a calculated value like ${WIO_Prefix}${VALUE}${Case} which represents my part number and should be in the BOM.
So a resistor with prefix R, value 10K and case 0805 yields R10K0805.
With field name templates I make sure every symbol has those fields, if empty.
When it comes to the “Designation” field, I’m stuck. How can I feed the formula into the “Designation” field in all symbols? If the field name tempate had a value field (as kinda default value), that would be a breeze, but nope. No value for field name templates.
It might look redundant in the case of R. But I have various prefixes for various capacitors like CTS (capacitor tantalum SMD), CK (capacitor ceramic), you get the idea. I want their reference to be C inall cases, so no redundancy here. Same goes for trimmers (RV resistor variable), RP (resistor pot) etc.
As a hobbyist responsible for only me and me alone I can do that without having to think about what’s a norm, what engineers expect atl.
But I’ll stick to my proven BOM script. Was just exploring what possibilities the new BOM opens up.
I was thinking more about my last remark while you were typing, and I do think that if you want this sort of customization, then the database libraries are probably the way to go. Databases exist for handling and creating this sort of information.
But if you only have a limited range of capacitor types, then you could create a simple library which has a pre defined string for each of your capacitor types.
Yeah, sure.
But then: my BOM works, at least until the python API changes. I only thought calculated fields could make a user-specfic BOM obsolete.
I’ve built my libraries over the years and I’m not in the mood to set up a new database. Not my definition of fun.
But thanks for your comments anyways and let’s leave it there (topic automatically closes in 1 hour).
