iBom for EasyEDA
is a native extension for EasyEDA and LCEDA: Standard Edition. It is based on the awesome project called InteractiveHtmlBom designed and built by qu1ck.
Although InteractiveHtmlBom already supports generation of interactive BOMs
from EasyEDA
projects, but it involves messing with Python
scripts and requires to host the generated html
files somewhere. Since my knowledge of Python === null
, and my favorite tool for designing electronics is EasyEDA
- I decided to give it a shot and port it as a native extension.
Comparing to original solution, iBom for EasyEDA
is available right within EasyEDA
itself:
- There is no need to run any
Python
scripts. - No need to host the produced
html
files. iBom
is always accessible by clicking a single menu button from yourPCB
document!- It also provides an ability to generate a stand-alone
HTML
representation the same way InteractiveHtmlBom does out of the box.
NOTE: This extension is still in ALPHA/BETA stage - a lot of things should be done in order to make it fully compatible with
EasyEDA
.
Installation
- Download easyeda-ibom-v0.1.2.zip
- Un-zip the downloaded archive on your hard drive.
- Go to
Extension Settings
dialog by using main menuAdvanced -> Extensions -> Extensions Settings...
. - Click
Load Extension...
button and add all the files in from the extracted folder usingSelect Files...
button. - Click
Load Extension
and close theExtension Settings
dialog.
Usage
Within EasyEDA
In order to launch iBom
within the editor itself - just click on iBom -> Launch...
menu item:
You can always dismiss the iBom
view by clicking on the little close
button located in the right-top corner of the panel.
Generating stand-alone HTML representation
Just click iBom -> Generate & Download HTML
menu item in order to get the stand-alone representation of your PCB
document:
Note: In case the downloaded file doesn't have
.html
extension - just add it manually. It is some sort of weird browser behaviour for the case to be investigated.
Feedback
If you discover any issue or have any suggestions for improvement of the plugin, please open an issue or find me on twitter @turbobabr.
Credits
This solution uses:
- InteractiveHtmlBom as a core component.
- A
"hackable"
nature ofEasyEDA/LCEDA
- thank you guys for allowing us messing with the product! π - svg-path-bbox for calculating various bounding boxes during
EasyEDA
->InteractiveHTMLBOM
data conversions.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2021 Andrey Shakhmin
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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