It's difficult to use Assembly Variants with most of the passives.

[nuket]

Hi guys, thanks for putting together this great library of parts.

One thing I've noticed when using it, however, is that for most of the parts, it is impossible to set a user-defined value with the exact manufacturer part number when setting up Assembly Variants, because almost all parts have the Value = Off in the Part Editor.

This makes it impossible to use the Bill of Materials ULP (bom.ulp) to easily generate a spreadsheet w/the exact manufacturer part numbers I then use to order from DigiKey or Mouser.

If I go into the Part Editor and change Value = On, I can then assign exact manufacturer part numbers in the Assembly Variant editor.

The diff for a single part looks like:

$ git diff
diff --git a/SparkFun-Resistors.lbr b/SparkFun-Resistors.lbr
index 06778ef..796e86d 100755
--- a/SparkFun-Resistors.lbr
+++ b/SparkFun-Resistors.lbr
@@ -2965,7 +2965,7 @@ It has a reduced top mask to make it harder to install upside-down.
-<deviceset name="1KOHM" prefix="R">
+<deviceset name="1KOHM" prefix="R" uservalue="yes">

There's probably a UNIX one-liner involving sed and awk to automate adding uservalue="yes" to every part in a library, and I may yet figure out what that is.

Is this something that SparkFun would be willing to pull? It wouldn't break any existing or past designs, and it would give a lot more flexibility to users to create more streamlined and detailed BOMs. It also doesn't negatively affect anyone not using Assembly Variants.