Variant management in KiCad schematic

[msauerpb]

Hi,
is there a possibility to manage assembly variants in schematic? Different part values or do not place marker?

Thank you for your help
BR
martin

[Tojan]

“Do not populate” has native support, you can set it for each component in a schematic in the properties window.

for different part values you can use additional fields for a symbol and use tools like the iBOM to generate population files for different variants.

[mf_ibfeew]

DNP flag: can be set in symbols properties.

extended variant management: not natively implemented, there is a older feature request pending on gitlab: Create a PCB assembly variant system (lp:#1767218) (#2131) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
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Until that is implemented you could try the following python-plugins which implement variant systems based on additional custom fields:

• InteractiveHTML BOM
• Kicost
• KiBom
• iBom

I have not tested these addons, so for more advice regarding these addons you have to wait for more answers.