Hi! First post on the forums, sorry if this should be somewhere else or has already been answered.
Is there any support we can drum up for a function to be able to sort symbols by SI notation vs. alphabetical? Our group totally prefers the [p, n, u, m] vs. the [p, u] notations for small value passives (for example, 1nF vs 1000pF).
Here’s an example demonstrating how infuriating it is to search a library of symbols that use SI notation:
I sort BOMs as I want since I remember. In past with Protel, and since 2017 with KiCad.
I copy KiCad generated BOM into my LibreOffice spreadsheet to take (semi-automatically - spreadsheed search function) from other tab containing all used by me elements their descriptions to be used in BOM send to contract manufacturer.
Among copied (taken from there) descriptions I have special field used for sorting.
For example 0603 resistors less than 10R have this field 6C1, then 10R+ have 6C2, 100R+ have 6C3,…
I sort BOM by two fields - this field and element value.
Once you have progressed to the point that you want to attach that sort of data to your symbols, it’s really getting time to look into the database driven library system. It is a bit of a hidden feature, but KiCad supports an interface to an external database. With it, you can put everything into your database, and then connect your personal database to KiCad. I’ve read several success stories on this forum of companies having such a database for some other EDA suite and then just connecting it to KiCad and keep on working like nothing special happened.
With a database you can also do complete stock management, make overviews of in-stock parts, possible substitutes etc.
