On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:43:23 -0500, Olin Lathrop wrote: > 1 - I want more than one value field that can be individually shown or not > shown on the schematic. On the schematic I might only want to show that a > cap is 100uF 20V, but I want a place to enter comments, manufacturer and > distributor part numbers, etc. A ULP for creating a BOM would export all > these fields, then a program could look up part numbers in a data base and > automatically create a useable BOM. Currently there is too much manual work > each time to create the BOM. That is something I have also thought of as well, the ability to have user-defined fields associated with parts. I've thought of creating an application to parse these fields after a ULP export. The application would make http requests to retrieve price/quantity information from various suppliers, and drop the results into an excel spreadsheet for analysis. Regards, Bob -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist