Types of Variations That Can be Performed.Understanding Logical and Physical Components.To indicate the lowest price found across all the distributors. The Unit$ and Ext$ in each distributor cell is colored green Orange if there is not sufficient quantity of the part available.The Avail cell is colored to show the availability of a given part Gray if no manufacturer or distributor part number was found in the BOM file.Yellow if there is enough of the part available, but not enough has been ordered.Orange if the part is available, but not in sufficient quantity.Red if the part is unavailable at any of the distributors.The Qty cell is colored to show the availability of a given part: Purple if the part is asign as ‘obsolete’ or ‘not recommended for new designs’.The Manf# cell is colored to warning the part lifecyle status: In addition to the part cost information, the spreadsheet output by KiCost Use the -ignore_fields command-line option to make KiCost ignore part fields It is possible that there are identical parts in your schematic that have differing dataĪnd, hence, wouldn’t be grouped together.įor example, you might store information about a part in a “notes” field,īut that shouldn’t exclude the part from a group that has none or different notes. If two or more parts in the group have different data, then any parts withoutĭata are left that way because it is impossible to figure out which data should.If two or more parts have data but it is identical, then thatĭata is propagated to any of the parts in the group without data.If only one of the parts has data, that data is propagated to all the other parts.There are several cases that are considered when propagating part data: To one of them and it will be applied to the rest. In a schematic, you need only assign a manufacturer’s number and/or pricing data To reduce your effort, KiCost will also propagate pricing data among grouped parts.įor example, if you place a hundred 0.1 uF decoupling capacitors in 0805 packages have the same footprint (e.g., “Resistors_SMD:R_0805_HandSoldering”).

have the same value (e.g., “10K” but note that this would not match “10000” or “10K0”), and.

come from the same library (e.g., “device”),.

KiCost groups similar parts together and places their information on a single line

Altium variant schematic