The reason why kicad exports xml is to allow the BOM output to be set to
whatever you want it to be, including CSV, but it was never
user-friendly. Poking around my kicad installation suggests python
scripts started to be shipped with kicad 6. I can send you the python
scripts that were shipped with kicad 6 and kicad 7 if you would like to
experiment, but I don't know if they would work with kicad 5 (if they
don't, maybe some editing would get them working).
You could upgrade kicad, in which case you would get the scripts and
everything should just work. That will require some work on your part,
particularly with respect to libraries, but this is what I would
recommend as it's by far and away the best use of time.
If you really don't want to upgrade and the kicad 6/7 python scripts
don't work with kicad 5, I can send you my xsltproc based files, but you
would need to modify what I have done, because it's very specific to my
own setup. So you would be spending time on a dead-end, and I would
have to spend time explaining everything.
Regards,
Robert.
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On 13/09/2024 09:23, dvalin via groups.io wrote:
I have yet to upgrade from "5.0.2+dfsg1-1 release build". (2018, so
pretty recent.)
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