BOM export lacks variant and title block metadata
KiCad bill of materials export lacks variant identity and drawing-sheet metadata, so scripts cannot tell which build it is.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 6 October 2026 · last reported 6 October 2026
What's going wrong
Hardware teams who export a bill of materials from KiCad find that it carries no record of which variant it came from, and no title, revision or issue date from the drawing sheet.
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