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BOM to IPC356
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 9:46 am
by Alan-M
Does anyone know what part of an IPC file contains the BOM section. We run an old PCB design package (Vutrax) that I would like to reformat the BOM from to create the components from with the IPC import. Hopefully it is an ASCII file.
Re: BOM to IPC356
Posted: Thu May 12, 2022 6:29 am
by Zofz
IPC356 contains more (and different) information than BOM. It is describing pads/pins type, the geometrical position of pads, the connected net, and grouping pads into components, via RefID.
It would be possible to extract the IPC-356 from the PCB file format.
But, please see:
http://www.vutrax.co.uk/latest.htm
Vutrax 13.4a (2010) should be able to export the IPC-356
Just for reference, see the geometry data from IPC-356:
Re: BOM to IPC356
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 2:12 pm
by Alan-M
Latest version of Vutrax is 14.2a.
Downloaded it and ran my existing file through it, to generate an IPC356 file.
ZofZ loads everything in just fine, a couple of footprints need swapping out, but then I had to do that with our other PCB package so no sweat there.
Thanks for the support from Rafal.
Alan M.