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Generating a Bill of Material

For EDA files, you can obtain a list of the components and parts required for manufacturing the item featured in the schematic drawing or PCB design.

The Bill of Material (BOM) report produces a count of the unique components or parts needed for manufacturing. It lists the quantity required, component name, reference designators, value (for resistors and capacitors), size and descriptions. When determining a component's uniqueness, the count considers only the attributes chosen for inclusion in the report output. It includes only those attributes that provide the most accurate, unique component quantities.

To generate a Bill of Material:

  1. Select Analysis > BOM from the AutoVue main menu.
  2. Note You can also click the BOM icon on the AutoVue toolbar.

    If you are generating a BOM for a schematic with multiple pages, a dialog appears.

    Select if you want to generate a BOM for the Current page or the Entire design, then click OK.

    A dialog appears listing the attributes of the file.

  3. Select the attributes that you want to appear in the report, then click Generate.
  4. The Bill of Material dialog appears listing the Count for each component or part possessing the attributes you selected. There are also columns displaying the values of the attributes you selected.

    Note To sort a column by alphanumerical or alphabetical order, click on the column heading.

  5. To save the Bill of Material, click Export. The Save As dialog appears.
  6. Specify the directory where you want to store the file, the file name and extension, then click Save.

    Note You can specify either xml (Product Data Exchange) or csv (Common Separated Values) for the extension.

    AutoVue automatically saves the results in a file with the format you specified.

  7. Click Close to close the Bill of Material dialog.

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