+1 on this
I usually work-around the problem setting the component value to "NM" or
"Not mounted" or "Don't mount" , but this is sub-optimal and needs more
work to update the bom and the place files.
The only suggestion I have is to make translatable or configurable the
shown string on the schematic and layout printed/plotted files (I mean
the files that are intended to be read mostly by humans): may be in
different countries the DNF or NC or NM have a different meaning.
This "do not fit" flag would be a solution simpler than fully implement
the "assembly variants" (with a single schematic where "don't fit"
components and even the component value value depend on "assembly
version"), but it would make life easier on a lot of projects.
The full "assembly variants" implementation would probably require
changing the file format having a list of values for every component and
a list of allowed variant, so this seems in the far (far) future (but
may be I'm wrong).
Once the "don't fit" information is available both to pcbnew and
eeschema, future (and indipendent from this) developments could also
have "big red ugly cross" over dnf components in the assembly drawings
(or something like that), graying-out the DNF components in eeschema etc...
On 19/09/19 12:47, Oliver Walters wrote:
Hi all,
Almost a year ago now I suggested a feature addition, allowing for
marking parts in the schematic as "DO NOT FIT"
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg38415.html
I had made a lot of progress towards feature completion, however was
told at the time that such a feature would not be accepted.
A year later, and after a lot of frustration of sending the wrong files
out for manufacturer due to confusion about which parts are fitted, I'd
like to raise the issue again.
Currently parts are marked as "DNF" by setting a special field in the
BOM and checking for this with a special export script.
However, I feel (and I'm sure many would agree) that this information
should be integral to the schematic representation itself. Some other
EDA packages achieve this quite well.
I presented a way to achieve this without breaking backwards
compatibility with the file format.
If the "new" file format is still far in the future, can this feature be
considered again?
Cheers,
Oliver
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