gEDA-user: Multiple footprint methodology?

[John Luciani]

On 8/2/06, DJ Delorie <dj at delorie.com> wrote:
>
> > For BOMs I create attributes called "manufacturer" and
> > "manufacturer_part_number". If you need to change part numbers
> > edit the "manufacturer_part_number" attribute.
>
> I started "standardizing" some of these attributes, when used to map
> schematics to boards, here:
>
>            http://www.gedasymbols.org/csv.html
>
> Ales has a list of standard attributes somewhere online too.

I have been using the following attributes for building BOMs and orders ---

  manufacturer
  manufacturer_part_number
  vendor
  vendor_part_number

all lower case with underscores replacing spaces. The only BOM (or
order) attributes I place in the schematic are manufacturer and
manufacturer_part_number. I join the vendor information to the
manufacturer/manufacturer_part_number when I run my order script.

I use the attribute names as column names in my Postgres tables.

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