Hi,
Is does not seem to be possible to import catalogue items - this is something that would almost essential with initial setup of the system for use when we will have a large number of parts to get into the system for the users to be able to select from.
It would be very helpful to be able to provide all the required fields in a spreadsheet and then import into SkyCAD - the images would probably need to be added. For the Panel layouts, maybe a blank rectangle could be used as a placeholder sized from the dimensions in the import.
Likewise wih the parts list. We will often develop an I/O list and required parts even before we start drawing fr at least the main items if this information is known.
Thank you for posting on the forum.
Allowing for the importing of catalogue parts from an excel spreadsheet is on our to-do list as you're not the first user to make this suggestion.
Your parts list suggestion is also a good one.
Importing IO lists is already possible. Here's the tutorial for that.
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Did this one ever get completed? Can we import CSV's for catalog items now? I have a couple thousand items I'd like to get added to the catalog and I'm looking at several days of manually copy/pasting data vs. minutes with a SQL query copied into a .CSV. Devices with required layouts could be added back manually, and don't need to be created at the time of import.
Once we dug into this, we realized that this was a lot more complex than what it seems like on the surface.
Importing simple data to create catalogue parts is quite easy to imagine, but ensuring those imported catalogue parts work well with symbols is a different story.
All this to say, unfortunately importing catalogue parts (apart from the online parts catalogue) is not possible.
Sorry we don't have a better answer than that.
Jeff,
Any amount of symbols can reference a single class, right? But catalogue parts themselves don't reference a symbol, they simply reference a class. How does the symbol actually play into the catalogue if any symbol can reference any class but each catalogue part only references a single class?
Any amount of symbols can reference a single class, right?
Yes.
But catalogue parts themselves don't reference a symbol, they simply reference a class.
True.
How does the symbol actually play into the catalogue if any symbol can reference any class but each catalogue part only references a single class?
There is a slight misunderstanding here.
A symbol cannot reference any class. A symbol can only reference one class; the one set in the symbol's Work Object Class property.
When you insert a contactor coil symbol, SkyCAD adds a contactor to the project and links the symbol to that contactor.
This means that when you select the coil symbol and choose Assign from Catalogue, you will be given a list of only contactor catalogue parts to choose from.
When you choose a catalogue part, the real pin numbers of the coil are automatically shown on the coil symbol (if the contactor catalogue part was saved properly), and if you link subsequent symbols (power contacts, NO, NC) to the same contactor, the real pin numbers automatically appear exactly where they're supposed to.
Allowing the import of catalogue parts from CSV or Excel would not allow for this automatic pin number association to the correct symbols to work.