User Guide

Chapter 10 Preparing Your Design for Board Layout
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Customizing the Format of the Report
1 Click Setup to display the Report Setup dialog box.
2 In the Format text box, type the attributes to be
displayed in the report according to the following
syntax:
[descriptive text]@<attribute name>
where the ‘@’ sign indicates value substitution for the
named attribute. Specify multiple attributes by using
the preceding syntax in a comma-separated list. For
example, you could specify that the part instance
VALUE attribute, and your own user defined attributes,
COST and ADDR, be reported by typing the following
into the Format text box:
value = @VALUE, cost = @COST, address =
@ADDR
3 In the Component Description File text box, enter the
name of the component description file (
.cdf) to be
used.
4 Choose a Print Output format.
Choose Text to format the Bill of Materials report in
ASCII format with one entry per component type.
5 Click OK.