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> The problem is that there are hundreds or even thousands of > different resistors in my database. I could choose a thru-hole part > for packaging only to have the pcb layout engineer change it to > surface mount part or inline sip or dip array. Those changes would > have to be backannotated from PC layout to the original schematic. > > So here's the problem. You frequently have to take one design into > multiple PCB's. Your schematic will be used in the real product so > it must be nice and compact with all surface mount parts. You will > also use the same schematic to build a "break-out-board" with > thru-hole parts for testing and code development. This might be a case where a BOM drives the tools, instead of being an output file. Multiple "input BOMs" could be maintained by different groups and merged as part of the process that generates the final PCAs. And by BOM I mean "any data that helps narrow down the part selection" - it could be a physical list or regex's, rule set, or database of attribute preferences. Whatever :-) My blue sky proposal included the option of "some rule set" which I never defined, which provides project-specific defaults to help narrow down the list of available parts to the one actually used. The idea was that the designer specified what they needed, and the layouter would pick from the options given.
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