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Does OrCAD have an interactive HTML BOM feature like Kicad?

Krutik
Krutik 8 months ago

Hello,

Does OrCAD have an interactive HTML BOM feature like the Kicad?

Currently I am using OrCAD 22.1 PCB Editor.

Thank you.

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  • techiecs
    0 techiecs 8 months ago

    One way to generate BOM in OrCAD PCB Editor is by going to menu Export> Quick Reports> Bill of Material Report, however this BOM report generated won't be an Interactive BOM Report

    For Interactive HTML BOM feature in PCB Editor, you may want to explore Variant BOM application which offers the ability to create reports for the core design.
    This report can be obtained using the Allegro Productivity Toolbox product option which needs to be purchased separately. The report can be obtained using the Productivity Toolbox's "tbx varibom" command.

    Variant BOM is a general purpose report generator. Thus it can be used to generate reports also on designs where no variants were specified.

    Three different file formats can be specified- a formatted text file, a csv file and an HTML file can also be generated, and click on 'Show Report' against HTML format while generating the BOM Report which opens it in a separate window wherein you click on any Refdes from the report and the corresponding Refdes gets highlighted in the OrCAD PCB Editor design canvas.

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    0 Krutik 8 months ago in reply to techiecs

    Thank you for the suggestion.

    Could you please provide a link to the Variant BOM application or where I can download it, as I am unable to find it online?

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    0 techiecs 8 months ago in reply to Krutik

    Variant BOM can be started from Pulldown menu in Allegro or by entering the command tbx varibom in the commmand window of Allegro itself.
    Variant BOM report generation requires using Allegro Productivity Toolbox product option in Allegro and which needs to be purchased separately.

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    0 techiecs 8 months ago in reply to Krutik

    Variant BOM can be started from Pulldown menu in Allegro or by entering the command tbx varibom in the commmand window of Allegro itself.
    Variant BOM report generation requires using Allegro Productivity Toolbox product option in Allegro and which needs to be purchased separately.

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    0 Krutik 8 months ago in reply to techiecs

    Ohk, Thank you for the solution.

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