Automated BOM Generator
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Usama Abid
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Smart Bill of Materials tool is in public beta and ready for use.
exile
Any hints / details how you are going to implement this? Are you planning to implement supply chain into managing / compiling the BoM (e.g what Altium Designer allows one to do via ActiveBOM)? There are also Interactive BOM tools available (KiCad, Eagle plugin) that helps to track sourcing as well as placing of the components (html based). Looking forward to this feature.
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Usama Abid
exile: Hi Exile, we did implement the supply chain into the BoM and the tool has been released would love to take your feedback on it.
exile
Usama Abid: Hi Usama! Firstly, congratulations to you and the team on achieving the major release milestone! Keep it up as It's looking great. I'll be looking into the BoM feature and happy to provide feedback. Cheers! :)
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Usama Abid
exile: Thank you for your kind words and appreciation. Definitely do checkout the BOM feature and share your feedback. It would be really helpful to know what’s working, what can be improved and what can be added to make it a seamless experience.
exile
Usama Abid: The BOM view refers to a guide on how to use the feature. Where can I find this guide as the text doesn't link to anywhere. Creating a new BOM forces me to use and select a file in the default branch - why is that? My main branch is the release branch - how can I store whatever the BOM target file is in a development branch? Do you also have development documentation on the target format that the Smart BOM feature is using? I also see that many of the more interesting aspects of the BOM (like supply chain) are paywalled and packaged to a premium service and is not accessible for Open Source / Free tier projects. Limiting the size of the BOM is understandable (in a way) - but what is the business reasoning to limit the functionality of a feature for open source and public repos? Couldn't test this feature further as it expects certain things already from the start - like all the work is happening in a main default GIT branch. :facepalm:
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Usama Abid
planned
We have done POC for this feature and we will soon start working on this we will soon have an update on this.
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Usama Abid
under review
We are doing a POC and will share updates here.