I’m looking for a way to place a part in Eeschema but it don’t want to have this part in the PCB.
I know that I can use an annotation like #J1 but then the part doesn’t appear also in the BOM.
The reason for that is that I want to have a complete BOM.
So I want to achieve this:
Part in Eeschema = Yes
Part in BOM = Yes
Part in PCB = No
But I don’t need them on the PCB itself, because the parts which I assemble have those parts already inlcuded.
Maybe I try to use a wron approach?
I have included therefore my schematic and a 3D view.
The 2x24 Headerpins aren’t included in the schematic because I tried to have a simpler schematic.
Therefore I’ve made a footprint for the teensy with the nessesary holes. Instead of placing 2x24 female header pins and 2x24 male headerpins. Maybe that was a mistake?
What would you say? include all header pins in the schematic and redesign the footprint, or achieve somehow what I’ve described above? Or just live with it?
I could also just write an excel BOM by myself, or export the BOM and add the missing parts.
Not 100% clear on what you want but if you don’t assign the part a footprint then PCBnew can’t place it. You can also put the footprint outside the edge cut line. I think this is going to be a matter of pick which error you want to ignore.
I’m not well versed in this BOM stuff.
Just some random ideas:
As far as I know the BOM is generated by an external python script. I think I once saw a list of such scripts. You could make a copy of such a script, and then modify it to add a few extra lines of text to it’s output, or you could write an extra script that runs after the BOM and which adds for example the content of a text file with some extra items to your BOM.
I’m not sure if I understand.
You assemble at one PCB the other PCB being a kind of module with parts you wonder about being already assembled at that module.
In such case I suggest to do separate BOM for module and for main PCB list the module in its BOM.
