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I also tend to throw down assembly instructions there in text form.
Things like "Bend LED leads at 90 deg" or what ever. You are going to
want all that information at the same time and it has to describe
where these things physically go any way.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 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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