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Re: New (free) PCB software

2010-07-06 by tda7000

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Leon Heller <leon355@...> wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2010 04:26, fana cute wrote:
> > I'm agree with DJ,
> > Kicad is free and very simple, kicad have all of sparkpcb features, except bill of material
> > If kicad vs sparkpcb, i think this score 4:0....like germany vs argentina....peace bro
> 
> 
> What is wrong with SparkPCB? If it has all the KiCAD features, and a 
> BOM, shouldn't it be better? It's very easy to use.
> 
> Leon
> -- 
> Leon Heller
> G1HSM
>

Actually KiCAD does support output of a Bill of materials file to CSV format.

In PCBNew you go File menu -> Fabrication Outputs -> BOM File.

I am using the 2010-05-05 build. You may need to use this version, the older 2009 builds may not have this feature.

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