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How could I export a list of reference designators in a board area?

MarcG58

I'm a Producibility Engineer who gets to review new PC designs during the design phase, looking for areas that might prove "challenging" to manufacture. We've got a new design that has several challenging areas and are looking to produce a test board to work on our processes in those areas. I need to create a BOM from the brd file for just the parts we're interested in.

Ideally I would be able to select that area and then execute some kind of report generator to output the ref des of the selected parts. Is there a way to come close to that?

Thanks.

  • The straightforward method is to..

    Set your Find filter to Symbols only.   

    Select the parts/area you are interested in.

    >menu button(right) >Show Elements

    A new window will pop up with a very verbose report.  Fortunately, you can save it as a dot txt file, slurp it into Excel, one line per cell.  Sort by Cell.

    Delete all lines that don't start with RefDes.  Save.  Done.

    As a side note, we use Capture CIS as our front end.   Show Elements reports the PART_NUMBER property for each part, indexed to our CIS database to extract the MPN.

    To preserve the line sequence, insert a column in excel and add a line number.   When you delete everything but the Refdes, Room, and Part_Number property, you have that static line number property that you can sort to to recover the sequence that indicates which properties go for that refdes.

  • in reply to RFinley

    That will definitely work for me. Thanks!

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