Hi @qu1ck,
I’m wondering if is not possible to add table row highlight when a part is marked as sourced. In this way will be easy to follow what is sourced and what not.
Thanks,
Best Regards,
//a
Not exactly what I want…
As it is one of the most helpful plugins when building prototypes, personally, I use the placed option to highlight on the PCB the placed parts, but I would like to have simultaneously sourced parts highlighted in table. At this moment either one is possible…
It is helpful because the usage is in 2 steps: first to source the part on the design, then to place them on the PCB; and when place them, you can see which part you need from the sourced ones and which to get form a parts kit (eg, resistors, capacitors, etc).
In my opinion need source and placed options requires to be independent…
I don’t quite follow your use case. It’s typical to source all the parts before you even begin placing/assembly.
If you want some differentiation on where you store the part that sounds like a good fit for an extra field.
The major problem is to follow the line with choked boxes. What if the line is highlighted if either one of the box for source or place is checked? This can be an extra setting like highlight the line when a box is checked.
But you are right, you can use the mark option as the sourced and placed operations are sequential.
For multiple part sources the highlight can use different colors…
Best Regards,
//a
This plugin must be THE most useful plugin for any program I’ve ever used - commercial or free!
My use case is for making prototypes, but I have a requirement for three ‘tick boxes’. “Sourced” is self explanatory, as is “Placed”… but I have an extra : ‘pre-loaded’ or ‘pre-placed’.
I get prototype PCBs made by JLC and get them to partially assemble the board with any components they have in stock. With upwards of 500 components all up, getting 300 odd generic caps, resistors, transistors, etc fitted is a HUGE timesaver. I then use iBOM for assembling the rest… op-amps, micro, rtc, and other specialty passives/actives that JLC don’t carry. It saves me about half the time it used to take to do the whole lot - and far less frustrating too.
So I muck around with using the “sourced” and “placed” checkboxes as a kind of binary number… 00 = component not pre-fitted and requires ordering; 01 = component pre-fitted hence not required; 10 = component ordered and received but not fitted; 11 = component fitted.
A bit of a hassle, and I have occasionally gotten out-of-whack unless I concentrate.
IMHO an extra ‘checkbox’ field would be quite useful.
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That is very cool.
I thought that textbox was just for renaming the two ‘sourced’ and ‘placed’ checkboxes. Not even for a moment did I think I could type something extra there! That is most excellent - and will come in so handy!
@qu1ck : Thanks!
MM