User Guide

Chapter 10 Preparing Your Design for Board Layout
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Generating a Bill of Materials
Report
A Bill of Materials report lists the quantities of each
component type used in the design along with
corresponding reference designators. You can also
include information such as values for part instance
attributes (
VALUE and TOLERANCE) and user defined
attributes contained in a component description file.
Figure 25 is an example of a Bill of Materials report. The
only optional attribute chosen for display is the part
instance
VALUE attribute.
Figure 25 Bill of Materials Report
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the name you select is an alias (electrically
equivalent) of the basic symbol name, the
part you get will have the basic symbol
name. It will not have the name you type,
therefore, it will effect your Bill of
Materials.