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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:10:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] best/favourite way to specify non electronic
 components in BOM?
From: Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com>
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I have an extra page for none-circuit things in my stack of
schematics. It is made of symbols which often don't have pins and are
just named. I use the comment field to describe them. That page is not
fed to my netlister but it is fed to the gattrib utility. I tried to
start out with the best method I could think of but in the long run it
is more important to be as consistent as possible. This is for work
after all and someone else will inherit my documentation one day.
Adding things back into the BOM after the gEDA suite had generated
most of it felt like fighting the tool so this is what I do.

For example I have a schematic right now where I want to include the
4-40 screw, lock washer and nut that hold a TO220 down. I have symbols
for each of them on that hidden page.

Knowing the gEDA crowd I can bet there are other people here who have
their own ideas/methods about it.

-Evan

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Matt Rhys-Roberts
<matt DOT rhys-roberts AT envinsci DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Some LED spacers have just landed on my desk, and I realise the BOM needs to
> list these, so I'd like the schematic to reference them in order to save any
> manual BOM editing from this point onwards.
>
> Any practical suggestions for doing this please? It's probably deceptively
> simple...
>
> Thanks,
> Matt


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