Generating a Bill of Material

For EDA files, you can obtain a list of the components and parts required for manufacturing the item featured in the schematic drawing or PCB design.

The Bill of Material (BOM) report produces a count of the unique components or parts needed for manufacturing. It lists the quantity required, component name, reference designators, value (for resistors and capacitors), size, and descriptions. When determining the uniqueness of a component, the count considers only the attributes chosen for inclusion in the report output. It includes only those attributes that provide the most accurate and unique component quantities.

From the Analysis menu, select Generate Bill of Material.

Note: If you are generating a BOM for a schematic with multiple pages, a dialog box appears prompting you to select the BOM scope: Current page or Entire design.

Click OK after making your selection.

Note: The Generating BOM dialog box appears listing the attributes of the file.

Select the attributes that you want to appear in the report

Click Generate.

The Bill of Material dialog box appears listing the count for each component or part possessing the attributes you selected. There are also columns displaying the values of the attributes you selected.

Note: To sort a column by alphanumerical or alphabetical order, click on the column heading.

To save the BOM, click Export.

The Export BOM dialog box appears.

Specify the directory where you want to store the file, the file name and extension, then click Save.

Note: You can specify either .pdx (Product Data Exchange) or .csv (Common Separated Values) for the extension.

AutoVue automatically saves the results in a file with the format you specified.

Click Close to close the Bill of Material dialog box.