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| author | saurabhb17 | 2020-02-26 16:00:53 +0530 |
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diff --git a/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_bom_help.html b/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_bom_help.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a254d88 --- /dev/null +++ b/eeschema/dialogs/dialog_bom_help.html @@ -0,0 +1,282 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"/> + <title>kicad help</title> + <meta name="generator" content="LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 (Windows)"/> + <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"/> + <meta name="changed" content="2015-05-27T11:29:49.733000000"/> + <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> + <meta name="changed" content="2015-05-27T10:36:10.287000000"> + <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> + <meta name="changed" content="2015-05-27T09:45:48.809000000"> + <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> + <meta name="changed" content="2015-05-27T09:29:26.026000000"> + <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> + <meta name="changed" content="2014-12-03T20:04:24.723000000"> + <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> + <meta name="changed" content="2014-12-03T20:04:06.003000000"> + <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> + <meta name="changed" content="2014-12-03T19:59:24.882000000"> + <style type="text/css"> + @page { margin: 2cm } + p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; color: #000000; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto } + p.western { font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; so-language: en-US } + h1 { color: #000000 } + h1.western { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif } + h2 { color: #000000 } + h2.western { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20pt } + h2.cjk { font-family: "SimSun"; font-size: 14pt } + h2.ctl { font-family: "Mangal"; font-size: 14pt } + h3 { background: transparent; color: #000000 } + h3.western { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: italic } + h3.cjk { font-family: "SimSun" } + h3.ctl { font-family: "Mangal" } + a:link { color: #004586; text-decoration: none } + a.western:link { font-family: "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; so-language: zxx; font-style: italic } + a.sdfootnotesym-western { font-family: "DejaVu Serif", serif } + </style> +</head> +<body lang="en-AU" text="#000000" link="#004586" dir="ltr"> +<h1 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__2925_482973253"></a>1 - +Full documentation:</h1> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: normal">The +</span><i><b>Eeschema documentation</b></i> <span style="font-weight: normal">describes +this </span><b>intermediate netlist and gives examples<br></b><span style="font-weight: normal">See +also </span><i><b>https://answers.launchpad.net/kicad/+faq/2265</b></i></font></font></p> +<h1 class="western"><i>2 - </i>The intermediate Netlist File</h1> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">BOM +files (and netlist files) can be created from an Intermediate netlist +file created by Eeschema.</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">This +file uses XML syntax and is called the intermediate netlist. The +intermediate netlist includes a large amount of data about your board +and because of this, it can be used with post-processing to create a +BOM or other reports.</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Depending +on the output (BOM or netlist), different subsets of the complete +Intermediate Netlist file will be used in the post-processing.</font></font></p> +<h1 class="western">3 - Conversion to a new format</h1> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">By +applying a post-processing filter to the Intermediate netlist file +you can generate foreign netlist files as well as BOM files. Because +this conversion is a text to text transformation.</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">this +post-processing filter can be written using <b>Python</b>, <b>XSLT</b>, +or any other tool capable of taking XML as input.</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">XSLT +itself is a XML language very suitable for XML transformations. There +is a free program called </span></span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal">xsltproc</span></i><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">that +you can download and install. The</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">xsltproc +program can be used to read the Intermediate XML netlist input file, +apply</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> </span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">a +style-sheet to transform the input, and save the results in an output +file. Use of xsltproc requires a style-sheet file using XSLT +conventions. The full conversion process is handled</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">by +Eeschema, after it is configured once to run xsltproc in a specific +way.</span></span></span></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">A +Python script is somewhat more easy to create.</font></font></p> +<h1 class="western">4 - Initialization of the dialog window</h1> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">You +should add a new pluging (a script) in plugin list by clicking on the +Add Plugin button.</font></font></p> +<h2 class="western">4.1 - Plugin Configuration Parameters</h2> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The +Eeschema plug-in configuration dialog requires the following +information:</font></font></p> +<ul> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The + title: for instance, the name of the netlist format.</font></font></p> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The + command line to launch the converter (usually a script).</font></font></p> +</ul> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Once +you click on the generate button the following will happen:</font></font></p> +<ol> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Eeschema + creates an intermediate netlist file *.xml, for instance <i>test.xml.</i></font></font></p> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Eeschema + runs the script from the command line to create the final output + file.</font></font></p> +</ol> +<h2 class="western">4.2 - Generate netlist files with the command +line</h2> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Assuming +we are using the program <i>xsltproc.exe</i><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal">to +apply the sheet style to the intermediate file, </span></span><i>xsltproc.exe</i><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal">is +executed with the following command.</span></span></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">xsltproc.exe +-o < output filename > < style-sheet filename > < +input XML file to convert ></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">On +Windows the command line is the following.<br><i>f:/kicad/bin/xsltproc.exe +-o “%O” f:/kicad/bin/plugins/myconverter.xsl “%I”</i></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">On +Linux the command becomes as following.<br><i>xsltproc -o “%O” +/usr/local/kicad/bin/plugins/myconverter .xsl “%I”<br>w</i><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">here +</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">myconverter</span></i></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal">.xsl</span></i><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">is +the style-sheet that you are applying.</span></span></span></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">Do +not forget the double quotes</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">around +the file names, this allows them to have spaces after the +substitution by Eeschema.</span></span></span></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">If +a Python script is used, the command line is something like +(depending on the Python script):</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><i>python</i> +<i>f:/kicad/bin/plugins/bom-in-python/myconverter.py</i> +“<i>%I”“%O”<br>or<br>python</i> +<i>/usr/local/kicad/bin/plugins/bom-in-python/myconverter .xsl “%I” +“%O” </i></font></font> +</p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The +command line format accepts parameters for filenames:</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The +supported formatting parameters are.</font></font></p> +<ul> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><b>%B</b> + => base filename of selected output file, minus path and extension.</font></font></p> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><b>%P</b> + => project directory, without name and without trailing '/'.</font></font></p> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><b>%I + </b>=> complete filename and path of the temporary input file + (the intermediate net file).</font></font></p> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><b>%O</b> + => complete filename and path (but without extension) of the user + chosen output file.</font></font></p> +</ul> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><b>%I</b> +will be replaced by the actual intermediate file name<span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">(usually +the full root sheet filename with extension “.xml”)</span></span></span><br><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>%O</b></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">will +be replaced by the actual output file name (the full root sheet +filename minus extension).<br></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>%B</b></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">will +be replaced by the actual output short file name</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">(the +short root sheet filename minus extension).<br></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>%P</b></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">will +be replaced by the actual current project path.</span></span></span></font></font></p> +<h2 class="western">4.3 - Command line format:</h2> +<h3 class="western">4.3.1 - Remark:</h3> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Most +of time, the created file must have an extension, depending on its +type.<br>Therefore you have to add to the option <i><b>%O</b></i> the +right file extension.</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">For +instance:</font></font></p> +<ul> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><i><b>%O.csv</b></i> + to create a .csv file (comma separated value file).</font></font></p> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><i><b>%O.html</b></i> + to create a .html file.</font></font></p> + <li/> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> + <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><i><b>%O.bom</b></i> + to create a .bom file.</font></font></p> +</ul> +<h3 class="western">4.3.2 Example for<i> </i><span style="font-variant: normal"><i>xsltproc:</i></span></h3> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal">The +command line format for xsltproc is the following:<br>< path of +</span></span>xsltproc > <span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal">xsltproc +< </span></span>xsltproc parameters ></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">On +Windows:<br><i><b>f:/kicad/bin/xsltproc.exe -o “%O.bom</b></i>” +<i><b>f:/kicad/bin/plugins/netlist_form_pads-pcb.xsl “%I”</b></i></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">On +Linux:<br><i><b>xsltproc -o “%O.bom</b></i>” +<i><b>/usr/local/kicad/bin/plugins/netlist_form_pads-pcb.xsl “%I”</b></i></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">The +above examples assume</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">xsltproc +is installed on your PC under Windows xsl</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">exe</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">files +located in kicad/bin</span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><i><b>plugins/</b></i></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">.</span></span></span></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0"> +<br/> + +</p> +<h3 class="western">4.3.3 <i>Example fo</i><span style="font-variant: normal"><i>r +python scripts:</i></span></h3> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The +command line format for python is something like:<br><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal">python</span></span><span style="font-variant: normal"> +</span><span style="font-variant: normal"><span style="font-style: normal">< +script file name </span></span>> < input filename > < +output filename ></font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">On +Windows:<br><i><b>python.exe f:/kicad/bin/plugins +/bom-in-python/my_python_script.py</b></i> “<i><b>%I” +“%O.html</b></i>”</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">On +Linux:<br><i><b>python</b></i> <i><b>/usr/local/kicad/bin/plugins +/bom-in-python/my_python_script.py</b></i> “<i><b>%I” +“%O.csv</b></i>”</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Assuming +python is installed on your PC, and python scripts are located in +<i><b>kicad/bin/plugins /bom-in-python/</b></i>.</font></font></p> +<p lang="en-US" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> +<br/> + +</p> +</body> +</html> |