Fabrication Feature

[sslupsky]

I had a chance to review the fabrication feature https://github.com/yaqwsx/KiKit/blob/master/doc/fabrication/jlcpcb.md

This is quite interesting. One idea that occurs to me is to try and bring some synergy with the KiBOM plugin https://github.com/SchrodingersGat/KiBoM. KiBOM adds quite a bit of BOM output functionality to KiCAD and I wonder if you could make use of this with KiKit? Using the same BOM formatting standards could help reduce duplication of fields.

[yaqwsx]

You can already use any field name you wish - you just specify the name from CLI.

[sslupsky]

KiBOM has a way of dealing with variants. I haven't looked closely yet if the two methods are compatible but that is why I brought it up.

[sslupsky]

--ignore uses a component reference as its' parameter. Is it possible to use a field to ignore a component? So, something like:

--ignore_field JLCPCB_IGNORE

[yaqwsx]

This currently isn't implemented and the field name is hard-coded. But I agree it might make sense to have the field configurable.