Hello, readers welcome to the new post. Today we will discuss How to Generate BOM and Centroid File in Eagle. In the previous tutorial, we learned How to Generate Gerber files from Eagle and Place orders on PCBWAY. PCBWAY is the best PCB service provider that provides PCB-based services to their clients worldwide. From PCBWAY you can get the PCB board and PCB assembly services with prototyping and low-volume production at a single platform. The main advantage of their services is that you can get five pieces to start your projects. For more than a decade PCBWAY is providing services to all types of industries
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How to Generate BOM and Centroid Files in Eagle
- As in the previous tutorial, we have discussed how to make a Gerber file and upload to PCBWAY. Now we will have a loop to make a BOM file in Eagle.
What is BOM
- BOM is a computer file format used by Mac OS X installer, that stands for Bill of materials and is used for the determination of file installation, removal, and upgrading
- The bill materials BOM consists of all files in the directory having some information about every file
- File information areas file Unix file permissions owner and group size, time of last modification, and some other related information
- With this information, BOM also has a checksum of every file and information related to hard links
- BOM files are also used in PCB designing where it has components that have to connect to the PCB
What are Centroid Files
- The centroid data file consists of information related to the position and direction of each surface mount component on the PCB board
- It has X and Y location reference designer rotation and side of board upper or lower. The centroid file must have data according to surface mount components. This file is needed to place components on the PCB board
- The basic format for Cnetorid file with data must be in the sequence
- “Value/Package”
- ”Location X”
- ”Location Y”
- ”Rotation”
- ”Layer”
- ”Reference Designator”
- The XY position information is in mils, inches, or mm and is calculated from the given plate origin. The rotation is in degrees 0, 45, 90, etc. The layer side is usually defaulted to top but can be expressed as top/bottom or 0/1, which is used by some CAD systems. The XY information should indicate the center of the part. Since this detail uses a pick-n-place machine to place the parts.
Lets now discuss How to Generate BOM and Centroid File in Eagle
- In Eagle Software normally we get that file format is creating confusion when using the normal method to export BOM and Centroid files.
- To resolve this problem we will discuss how to export correctly formatted BOM and Centroid files through use of ULP
- First of all download the ULP on your computer Using tis link
- https://pcbwayfile.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/msgfile/23/01/11/1457344260842.zip
Generate Controid file
- First of off press on the ULP
- After that find the browse as shown in the below figure
- Now Choose the eagle_smt.ulp option
- Now press on the Save and Centroid file will be generated automatically
Generate BOM file:
- The first step to make a BOM file is like the Cedntorid file. Move to the Schematics page, press ULP then Browse…
- But now select the eagle_bom.ulp this time
- Ensure to select the Values, CSV and the output result is a BOM file in CSV format
so work is completed
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