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Just saying thanks for this advice from last year, as I'm now about to 
put it into action.
Regards,
Matt.


On 17/06/14 15:24, Evan Foss wrote:
> 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
>>