Bill of Material (BOM)

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• The Bill of Material is placed in the documentation folder (Hardware documentation). It should be placed in the output folder since it is necessary when making a production of the project.
• Components found in the BOM are sourced from Aliexpress. These components are sourced from different vendors on Aliexpress and it means different shipping fee applies for each component.
• Vendors on Aliexpress sell by reducing the selling price for each and making gains in the shipping cost to attract buyers.(Low selling price, high shipping cost) In the end the buyer spends a lot of money buying all the components.
• Bill of Material should have manufacturers part number, manufacturers name, alternative part number, quantity, designator,footprint etc. A BOM with all these fields can be upload to Octopart or digikey so that it can be quickly sourced.
• Quality of components sourced from Digikey, Mouser etc are relatively better as compared to components sourced from Aliexpress.
• If all the components in the BOM can be sourced from Digikey, they can be shipped together as one package at a cost efficient shipping fee.
• In the current BOM there are 26 components but when the BOM is exported from the KidCAD software, there are 86 unique components in the new BOM.
  

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• Go on Digikey and look for most of the components used in the project.
• Verify the footprint of the new component on Digikey matches with the footprint in the project. Visit snapeda for help in locating the footprint for the various component.
• Modify the properties of the schematic components and add the manufacturers part number and manufacturers name
• Find an alternative component that have the same footprint on Digikey
• Export the Bill of Material as a csv or excel file and save it in the output folder.