Plandroid Help Documentation

In the Costing page, there are two types of cost items. There are the cost items for the parts that you have used in your design, and which are automatically added by the program. And there are other items, (user cost items), that you can add yourself to cover anything else that should be costed.

User Cost Items

You can add your own user cost items with the Add Cost Item menu button (Add cost item). You can then proceed to edit all of that item's properties except its product code. Its cost will of course also be included in the total cost.

Any user cost items that you have added and edited can be added again to later designs. From the Costing page context menu select Add User Cost Item. This gives you a list of the recently edited user cost items which you can re-insert.

Catalog Items

To have cost items automatically inserted by the program, you need to select a catalog that contains parts representing those items. Although it is not straightforward, it is possible to create your own catalog file, or add your own parts to an existing catalog file. How to do so is covered in the Catalog File Structure section.

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