> I am using Pads for PCB design, I would like to save some time on the Bill of material creation.
> The problem is that my current BOM is done in MS Words and every time I have to generate
> a part list report from Pads and re-key in everything in Words, a lot time was wasted especially
> in the part no. creation for different parts used.
> Any body have a better way to do it ?
> Thanks & Best Regards,
>


Hello Eileen

Do you still have the manual which came with V1 of your Power PCB? If
you do, go to page 48-53 of that manual, and there you find a section
on "User defined reports". This section will assist you in formating
a custom report file. If you dont have the manual try the on line
help(?) . I havent seen the on line help on this subject so I dont
how complete it is. I took one of the exsisting files and modified it
to suite me and saved it under a different name. These report format
files can be found the c:\padspwr\powerpcb directory. The output from
these report files are often called "REPORT.REP" and are, I beleive,
put in this same directory. you can take your report file output and
bring it up in your MS Word and mod it from there.

Hope this helps..



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