# # Example python script to generate a BOM from a KiCad generic netlist # # Example: Sorted and Grouped CSV BOM # """ @package Generate a Tab delimited list (csv file type). Components are sorted by ref and grouped by value with same footprint Components with a field 'Installed' set to 'NU' (Normally Uninstalled) are not included in the BOM Fields are (if exist) 'Ref', 'Qnty', 'Value', 'Footprint', 'Description', 'Vendor', 'Vendor_nr', 'Manufacturer', 'Manufacturer_nr' Command line: python "pathToFile/custom_bom_csv_grouped_by_value_with_fp.py" "%I" "%O.csv" """ # Import the KiCad python helper module and the csv formatter import kicad_netlist_reader import csv import sys # Generate an instance of a generic netlist, and load the netlist tree from # the command line option. If the file doesn't exist, execution will stop net = kicad_netlist_reader.netlist(sys.argv[1]) # Open a file to write to, if the file cannot be opened output to stdout # instead try: f = open(sys.argv[2], 'w') except IOError: e = "Can't open output file for writing: " + sys.argv[2] print(__file__, ":", e, sys.stderr) f = sys.stdout # Create a new csv writer object to use as the output formatter out = csv.writer(f, lineterminator='\n', delimiter=',', quotechar='\"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL) # Output a set of rows for a header providing general information #out.writerow(['Source:', net.getSource()]) out.writerow(['Date:', net.getDate()]) #out.writerow(['Tool:', net.getTool()]) #out.writerow( ['Generator:', sys.argv[0]] ) #out.writerow(['Component Count:', len(net.getInterestingComponents())]) out.writerow(['REF', 'QNTY', 'VALUE', 'DESCRIPTION', 'VENDOR', 'VENDOR_NR', 'MANUFACTURER', 'MANUFACTURER_NR']) # Get all of the components in groups of matching parts + values # (see ky_generic_netlist_reader.py) grouped = net.groupComponents(net.getInterestingComponents()) # Output all of the component information for group in grouped: refs = "" # Add the reference of every component in the group and keep a reference # to the component so that the other data can be filled in once per group for component in group: refs += component.getRef() + ", " c = component if not (refs == ""): refs = refs[:-2] # Remove last comma # Fill in the component groups common data out.writerow([refs, len(group), c.getValue(), c.getField("Description"), c.getField("Vendor"), c.getField("Vendor_nr"), c.getField("Manufacturer"), c.getField("Manufacturer_nr")])