Bob J wrote: >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 > > This type of thing was a longstanding request to Cadsoft, and Cadsoft is now actively working on adding arbitrary fields to components. These should allow the above much more easily. Let's keep our fingers crossed. David -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist