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Importing Bills of Materials

You can import the parts data of a bill of materials into the current project. Please note that export and import can only be carried out within the same project.

Precondition:

You have opened a project.

  1. Select the following menu items: Project data > Parts / Devices > Bill of materials navigator
  2. In the Bill of materials - <Project name> dialog, select the Import popup menu item.
  3. In the Import bill of materials dialog, use the Look in drop-down list to define the drive and directory where the import file is located.
  4. Select one of the entries defining the import file type from the Files of type drop-down list.
  5. Select the desired import file from the list.
  6. Click [Open].

    The records are imported. If errors occur during the import, then a corresponding message is displayed, the details of which can be seen in the message management (Project data > Messages > Management).

If you have exported and edited data, only certain fields from the export file are written back on import. An overview of the fields is provided in the section "Bills of Materials: Export File Fields".

Note:

If a part reference is imported that is already assigned to a DT, the DT must already exist. Otherwise, a part reference for a Project part will be created.