kicost 0.1.5

Build cost spreadsheet for a KiCad project.

KiCost is intended to be run as a script for generating part-cost spreadsheets for circuit boards developed with KiCad.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://kicost.readthedocs.org.

Features

• Processes the BOM XML file from your KiCad schematic to create a part-cost spreadsheet by scraping the web sites of several popular distributors for price and inventory data (Digi-Key, Mouser and Newark/Element14 are currently supported).

• The spreadsheet contains quantity-adjusted pricing from each distributor for individual parts and the total board.

• Enter the number of boards to be built in a spreadsheet cell and all the pricing for the total board and individual parts is updated.

• The spreadsheet also shows the current inventory on-hand for each part at each distributor.

• Enter the quantity of each part that you want to purchase from each distributor and lists of part numbers and quantities will appear in formats that you can cut-and-paste directly into the website ordering page of each distributor.

History

0.1.5 (2015-07-25)

• Corrected entrypoint in __main__.py.

0.1.4 (2015-07-09)

• Added conditional formatting to indicate which distributor had the best price for a particular part.

• Fixed calc of min unit price so it wouldn’t be affected if part rows were sorted.

0.1.3 (2015-07-07)

• Added global part columns that show minimum unit and extended prices for all parts across all distributors.

0.1.2 (2015-07-04)

• Refactoring.

• To reduce the effort in adding manufacturer’s part numbers to a schematic, one will now be assigned to a part if:

  1. It doesn’t have one.

  2. It is identical to another part or parts which do have a manf. part number.

  3. There are no other identical parts with a different manf. part number than the ones in item #2.

0.1.1 (2015-07-02)

• Fixed delimiter for Mouser online order cut-and-paste.

0.1.0 (2015-06-30)

• First release on PyPI.