User guide

The Input Files
5-14: Creating and Updating BOMs
Depop Files
DEPOP_FILE
Project_depoped
.lst
A depop file contains a list of parts and quantities to remove from a BOM. This is
useful if the schematic that you use to generate the BOM contains parts that you
do not want on the BOM. You can not depopulate a part below 0.
On the West Coast, you can automatically create “depop per page” files and
schematic attributes.
Depop files have the following format:
part_number
[
| description
]
| quantity
[
| ref des list
]
For example:
# Part # Description Qty Refdes list
#------------------------------------------
999999 | L_FIDUCIAL | 21 | FD1-21
999999 | G_FIDUCIAL | 8 | FD22-29
000000 | 29F040-120 | 1 | U15
Change Files
CHANGE_FILE
Project_changed
.lst
Change files are used to replace one part number with another. They have one or
more lines in the following format:
part_number
|
replacement_part_number
[
| ref designators
]
If you omit the
ref designators
, the replacement will apply to all parts sharing the
same number.
When the BOM process runs, each part number is replaced by its replacement. To
avoid replacing all occurrences of a part, you can change a specific number of
parts using ref designators. This is useful when you don't want to specifically
depop and add a replacement part.
For example, the first line of the following file replaces part 118367-A with part
300123-A for all ref designators FD1-FD21:
118367-A | 300123-A | FD1-21
118368-A | 300111-A | U15