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We did not use BOM generator via octopart in Altium. What we do now: We have our own kicad library which is mostly derived from the official kicad libary + some custom parts etc. We have all the information added to this library including Manfucaturer, MPN, datasheets etc. and from there we generate our BOM. There might be a more efficient way to do it, but we did something similar in Altium. So maybe we could have done better there too.

[neltnerb]

That seems reasonable. I found the digikey list bom export tool the other day and it looked awfully close but it was using the value for the part number because that's where I usually put them (with real values for passives). So it did pretty well for my special ICs but then had a bunch of like "10k" part names.

But okay, I have ten different resistor values but they're all the same symbol and package. Is there a field you know of where I could put a list of validated part number options for a given refdes? It sounds tedious but if it were connected with a search engine it would be no worse than altium.