"BOM only" symbols in EESchema
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KiCad |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a wishlist item.
Some workflows like to have symbols in the schematic for non-PCB-mounted things, such as screws and other mounting hardware and what-not. These parts show up in the BOM that is generated from the schematic.
To handle this, I have created a generic symbol called HW. This symbol doesn't have anything in the footprint field. It does, however, have a custom "PN" field. I place the symbol on the schematic (it's just a box) and edit the PN field appropriately and generate the BOM, and that works well.
When a PCB netlist is generated and imported into PCB, there is an obvious error: "Footprint not found for symbol HW1." And that's easily ignored, but also nobody likes seeing ERRORS in netlist imports.
So what would be nice would be for a symbol to have an option of some kind that says "BOM only" or "No footprint" or something else obvious, and when EESchema generates the pcbnew netlist, those symbols with that option enabled are simply not put into the netlist.
description: | updated |
Changed in kicad: | |
assignee: | nobody → umut yasar (ankarali) |
Maybe we shouldn't give an ERROR for a part that doesn't *have* a footprint, and only for one that has a footprint but it's missing.....