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List ambigous parts in tcl

fsdb

For BOM generation I need to check if a BOM has ambiguous parts.

I have found no tcl examples for this.

How can I do this?

I only need to know if the there is an ambiguity, I don't need the affected parts.

  • oldmouldy
    TCL is general purpose programming language, to which has been added specific library functions to manipulate Capture objects, for example. A BOM is just a text file output, you could use TCL to manipulate a text file but there are probably better ways to do that. If you want to use the Capture TCL functions to inspect the Part properties in Capture that might form the BOM output, that would be a potential application of the Capture TCL API, the next thing to identify is what might constitute an ambiguity?
  • fsdb

    Using the Capture TCL API is exacly what im I want to do.

    If a part is not defined in a BOM Variant then I get this:

    I need to detect if there is such an ambiguity, else I get a wrong BOM.

    All Capture TCL API commands I found do not work.

    Thanks to the great documentation with perfect explanation of the parameters you can only guess what the functions expect as valid input.

  • oldmouldy
    Good luck trying to get into the variant data and uncover what is within. In this case, with a little effort, you can change things around and "never" encounter this issue again. The way to organise your Variants is with subgroups within groups. Once you have all of you Variant Parts in groups and subgroups, you can set the fitted / not fitted / different value within the subgroups and then combine the "common" and subgroups into your variant and never see the "ambiguous" message again.
  • fsdb
    I already have the components in groups and subgroups, but sometimes it happens that a component is added to two groups accidentally.
    Since I can now create all documentation and data for manufacturing with only one click I would like to check, if there is an error and output a warning.
    I don't open the part manager an create all BOMs manually anymore, so I don't see these information and I have to obtain it in another way.
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