![]() Sounds like may be in a similar workflow as me. Even cooler would be to have it pull from both so that you could upload each BOM and determine who had the majority of the parts and who was cheaper!! That said, a script that would update the database with that dynamic data from mouser or digkey would be the cats ass. Not perfect, but definitely nice to get a quick glimpse of what the cost drivers were in a design really quickly. I’d then go back into the database and update those that needed it, or if it was a group/family of parts that were all priced the same, update them all. For example, I’d complete a design, and then upload the BOM to digikey or mouser, and it was fairly easy to see what part costs had changed. I also used the fact that part cost information was out of date as a driver to keep my database up to date. That said, I think the volatility of part availability is to much - especially in current times, with part shortages all over, etc. I’m a bit mixed on this but mostly agree with teletypeguy - its is very useful as a small shop to have the cost data in the database, even if it gets out of date. I am guessing that I need to install the nightly version to test this out – is that correct or is there a way to play with it in 6.0.10? I was going to wait for v7 before diving into db usage but now I really am itching to try this out and start building a proper database. kicad_dbl file to the Symbol Libraries Table in 6.0.10 as the file type is not recognized. kicad_dbl file for mapping makes sense and I now want to add the db to kicad to see how it works, before building my personal database. ![]() I think I have a decent handle on the database side of things for the moment. With db-browser (and the similar sqlite-studio) I can open and edit the db, and I see how to pull my own db together via csv import from my existing component spreadsheet. I have been through this thread and related links quite a bit, have installed linux versions of sqlite/odbc sw and the kicad-provided. Databases persist while browsers are open.I am trying to get a database running with kicad as well and might be almost there.
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