assistants for assembly PCB

[Abricos]

This plugin was born from necessity of generating convenient BOM listing with ability to easily search for components and their placements on the pcb.

This is really useful when hand soldering your prototype and you have to find the 50 places where that 0.1uF cap should be or which of these SOP8 footprints are for the same micro.

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/04/interactive-kicad-boms-make-hand-assembly-a-breeze/
https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom

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[NBytevenom]

Maybe I'll finally get around to putting my kit together now with this!

[AndreyB]

KiCad 5.0 is the only fully supported version.

Lovely, we are still on KiCad 4 I did not even know there was KiCad 5. KiCad 5.0.0 was released in July 2018

http://kicad-pcb.org/download/ OMG it's 1014MB download?! That's a bit above average size

Downloading...

[AndreyB]

Looks like our custom footprints are not happy?

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8:37:27 PM: Alias 'ADS7843E/2K5' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 465 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3421A0T-E/CH' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 746 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3425A0T-E/CH' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 770 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3425A1T-E/CH' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 776 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3425A2T-E/CH' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 782 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3425A3T-E/CH' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 788 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3550-50-E/MS' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 830 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3550-60-E/SN' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 836 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3551-E/MS' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 842 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP3553-E/SN' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 848 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4801-E/MC' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 866 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4811-E/MC' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 884 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4821-E/MC' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 902 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4901-E/MC' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 920 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4911-E/MC' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 938 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4921-E/MC' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 956 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4921-E/MS' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 962 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4921-E/P' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 968 offset 17
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4921-E/SN' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 974 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4922-E/P' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 986 offset 17
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4922-E/SL' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 992 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP4922-E/ST' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\adc-dac.dcm'

at line 998 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'XC3S200AN/FT256' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\xilinx.dcm'

at line 38 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'ENC28J60-C/SS' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 3 offset 19
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'ENC28J60-I/ML' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 9 offset 19
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'ENC28J60-I/SO' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 15 offset 19
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'ENC28J60-I/SP' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 21 offset 19
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2050-330-E/MQ' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 39 offset 22
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2050-330-E/P' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 45 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2050-330-E/SL' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 51 offset 22
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2050-500-E/MQ' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 57 offset 22
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2050-500-E/P' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 63 offset 21
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2050-500-E/SL' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 69 offset 22
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2515-E/ST' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 117 offset 18
8:37:27 PM: Alias 'MCP2515-I/ST' not found in library:

'C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\library\microchip.dcm'

at line 123 offset 18
8:37:28 PM: Alias 'TJA1051T/3' not found in library:

'C:\stuff\rusefi\hardware\rusefi_hardware_history\frankenso_rev00.40\rusefi_lib\art-electro-ic.dcm'

at line 41 offset 16
8:37:28 PM: Alias 'MAX9926/9927' not found in library:

'C:\stuff\rusefi\hardware\rusefi_hardware_history\frankenso_rev00.40\rusefi_lib\art-electro-max.dcm'

at line 3 offset 18

[AndreyB]

Do we like https://rusefi.com/docs/ibom/frankenso_latest.html?

[kb1gtt]

Under the changes I'm excited to see
-- New 3D viewer
-- New 3D model plugin architecture
Now supports STEP and IGES viewer
STEP assembly export from STEP and IGES inputs
-- Simple math equations in some input fields
-- Table view for editing symbol fields
-- Direct update of board without need for intermediate netlist
-- Custom pad shapes
-- Improvements to the arc drawing tool
-- Improvements to the zone drawing and editing tools

I also see
-- New libraries for symbols, footprints and 3D models
-- Footprint libraries installed locally and the Github plugin is no longer the default

That is likely where the 1gig download is coming from. Those 3d models take allot of space.