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Assembly Variant Part Attribute

jameslittlefield

I'm using Eagle 6.6 Pro and have been assigning part attributes (MF, MPN, OC_VENDOR) to my schematics and use the bom ulp to generate BOMs.    While there is much to wish for in terms of the mechanics of initially assigning attributes the process works pretty well.    I now have a project where I have some components that have alternate values so I created an assembly variant and changed the value of the component in the new assembly variant.    Everything works as expected EXCEPT that the manufacturer part number attribute for the part is the same even though its value changes from 1M to 10M between variants.    Is there a way to have separate sets of attributes in each assembly variant?

 

Might this work better in 7.x eagle?   Advice appreciated.

 

Thanks

Jim

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    Hi Jim,

     

    I've just tested this out in 7.2.0 and it is exactly as you describe in 6.6

    I'm afraid.

     

    It does seem quite a limitation of variants to only allow the value and

    technology to be changed within a variant and not any other attributes and

    the way of doing that seems a little clunky too. I guess it's fine for

    people who aren't trying to put in place a system that properly manages

    BOM's and need more than just value and technology.

     

    I personally would have expected to be able to crate a new variant, switch

    to it and then edit all properties and attributes of a component in the

    usual way. Switching between any variants would then restore all component

    properties and attributes to the selected variant. Sadly it doesn't work

    this way. Maybe there is a good reason they've implemented it this way but

    I'm not sure what as I only recently discovered the variants feature so

    haven't used it too much yet, only for specifying populated or

    non-populated parts.

     

    Rachael

     

     

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    Hi Jim,

     

    I've just tested this out in 7.2.0 and it is exactly as you describe in 6.6

    I'm afraid.

     

    It does seem quite a limitation of variants to only allow the value and

    technology to be changed within a variant and not any other attributes and

    the way of doing that seems a little clunky too. I guess it's fine for

    people who aren't trying to put in place a system that properly manages

    BOM's and need more than just value and technology.

     

    I personally would have expected to be able to crate a new variant, switch

    to it and then edit all properties and attributes of a component in the

    usual way. Switching between any variants would then restore all component

    properties and attributes to the selected variant. Sadly it doesn't work

    this way. Maybe there is a good reason they've implemented it this way but

    I'm not sure what as I only recently discovered the variants feature so

    haven't used it too much yet, only for specifying populated or

    non-populated parts.

     

    Rachael

     

     

    --

    Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

     

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