Tutorial 9 · Release

BOMs & Exports

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What you'll learn

  • How to open and filter the Bill of Materials (BOM) and export it to CSV — from the diagram or harness editor
  • How to use the Connections Table for pin-to-pin documentation
  • How to generate a harness Cut List for manufacturing
  • How to export a diagram or harness drawing as PDF, PNG, or JPEG
  • How to do bulk exports across an entire project

Prerequisites

  • Complete Tutorial 4: Make your First Diagram so you have devices, connectors, and wires that produce BOM rows.
  • Complete Tutorial 6: Make your first Harness with routed segment lengths and cut-length formulas so wire/cable lengths are accurate in the BOM.

Steps

1Open the Bill of Materials

All export actions live in the right Properties pane when nothing specific is selected on the canvas.

Diagram editor: click empty canvas (or deselect everything). The Diagram Properties view appears.

Harness editor: the same gesture opens Harness Properties (see Tutorial 6: Harness Editor). BOM is harness-scoped — treatments and segment contents roll up here.

  1. Click BOM (DocumentCurrencyDollarIcon).

The Bill of Materials modal opens. It has tabs at the top:

  • All — every part on the diagram
  • Devices
  • Connectors
  • Cables
  • Tools

A checkbox lets you Hide unused devices / connectors so the BOM only counts what is actually wired.

Screenshot

Bill of Materials modal with the Cables tab active and several rows visible

2Export the BOM to CSV

The bottom-right of the BOM modal has the export controls.

  1. Click the gear icon next to Export CSV (tooltip CSV filename options) to control filename composition. You can include the Diagram name, Harness name (in the harness editor), and Version name in the filename.
  2. Pick the units you want via the Units: selectors (length, mass, cable mass per length).
  3. Click Export CSV to download.

Default filename suffixes per tab are bom, device_bom, connector_bom, cable_bom, and tool_bom.

Double-click any BOM row to select that item on the canvas and close the modal — useful for jumping straight to a part you have a question about.

3Open the Connections Table

A Connections Table is the pin-to-pin manufacturing document. It lists every connection (or every pin if you choose) with its harness, cable, end devices and pins, and length.

  1. Diagram Properties or Harness Properties → click Table (TableCellsIcon).
  2. The Connections Table modal opens. In the harness editor, the table is limited to that harness's wires.
  3. Optionally enable Show Unconnected Pins to include floating pins.

Columns include Harness, Cable ID, Device A, Device B, pin fields, Routed Length, Cut Length, Gauge, and more. Clickable cells jump to the corresponding diagram item.

Right-click a row for Swap A/B Columns, which is handy when your shop standard expects a particular end-A / end-B convention.

Screenshot

Connections Table with one row right-clicked and Swap A/B Columns visible

4Export the Connections Table

Click Export CSV at the bottom of the Connections Table modal. The default filename suffix is connections_table. The same filename options gear is available next to the button.

5Generate a harness Cut List

The Cut List is harness-scoped and shows the actual lengths your shop needs to cut. It is only available from the harness editor — there is no diagram-level Cut List button.

  1. Open the harness editor for the harness you want to manufacture (see Tutorial 6: Harness Editor).
  2. In Harness Properties, click Cuts (Scissors icon). You can also open the same list from Build Config → Cut List (Tutorial 6: Harness Editor, Step 9).
  3. The Cut List modal opens.

Columns: Part Name, Cut Length, Qty, References, Total BOM Length. The footer shows a count summary (e.g. 3 cuts · 2 part names). Click any row to highlight the corresponding wires/segments on the canvas and close the modal.

If the modal shows the empty state "No cuts to make — add wires with a defined length to populate this list.", go back to the harness editor and set Routed Length on segments first.

Click Export CSV to download the list. Cut length calculations come from the Build Config tab in the harness editor's left pane — that's where tolerance and cut-length formulas live.

Screenshot

Cut List modal with several entries and Export CSV highlighted

6Export the diagram as PDF, PNG, or JPEG

For a polished hand-off you usually want a rendered drawing, not just CSVs. This works from both editors:

  • Diagram editor: Diagram Properties → Export Diagram at the bottom.
  • Harness editor: Harness Properties → Export Diagram at the bottom — exports the harness drawing instead of the schematic.
  1. The Export Settings: modal opens.
  2. Pick a Format: — PDF, PNG, or JPEG.
  3. Choose Pages: — All or Custom (e.g. 1-5; 1,2,5).
  4. For PDF, optionally tick Additional Exports:
    • Pin Tables
    • Connection Tables
    • BOMs (with a Combined sub-checkbox)
    • Diagram Comments (title-block field)
    • Comment Threads (review threads)
  5. Pick Units for length, mass, and cable mass.
  6. Click the matching download button: Download PDF, Download PNG, or Download JPEG.

Note: PNG/JPEG export covers diagram canvas pages only — the additional appendices (BOMs, connection tables, etc.) are PDF-only.

Screenshot

Export Settings modal with PDF format and Additional Exports checkboxes visible

7Bulk-export BOMs across a whole project

For program-level deliverables you can export many diagrams and harnesses in one job, with the same PDF appendices (Pin Tables, Connection Tables, BOMs, Comments) and an optional ZIP bundle. This lives in the Bulk Export Settings: section of the Project Dashboard (☰ → Project Dashboard) — see Tutorial 10: Library & Project Dashboards for the walkthrough.

8Download released PDFs

Once a version has been released (Tutorial 7: Versioning), the released PDF is downloadable any time:

  • Open Version History for the diagram.
  • In the Current Releases panel at the top, click the download icon on any release pill.

9Bulk-export library definition

For procurement, you may want to download the entire library's contents into a single .csv.

  • In the Library sidebar header, click the Library Dashboard button (purple book icon). Tooltip: Library Dashboard.
  • Build a query, then export the result set as CSV.

This is independent of any diagram and reflects the organization-wide library inventory.

Summary

You generated BOM and Connections Table exports from a diagram or harness, produced a manufacturing Cut List from the harness editor, and exported polished drawings as PDF/PNG/JPEG with optional appendices. You also know where to find the project-wide bulk export and the library-wide inventory dashboard.

What's next

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