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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:28:11 +0000
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Using gattrib with pinless, non-electrical components?
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Thanks, I now find that I can add non-elec. hardware components to my 
existing schematics, and gattrib will open.

Now I think I see that having a schematic page full of pinless symbols 
*might* work, *if* that page is part of a larger project.

Matt



On 18/02/15 10:53, Jonatan Åkerlind wrote:
> On ons, 2015-02-18 at 10:38 +0000, Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:
>> I only want to keep project hardware details upstream of the spreadsheet
>> BOM, i.e. in gschem, to avoid having to think about copying the old
>> hardware details into a new BOM at every project up-issue. And the
>> number of open gEDA projects I manage is growing, so having
>> non-electronic parts in the BOM would be a great boon.
> In my current project I added things like cable side mating connectors
> and jumpers for the BOM. Works out pretty well, however I do add them to
> schematics with other components. I can edit the attribs using gattrib.
>
> However if I only add a couple of these "accessory" symbols and no
> symbol containing a pin to an empty schematic gattrib refuses to open
> it.
>
> By the way, I only have one general accessory.sym which I use to add any
> non-electrical component by giving it the proper attributes (i.e.
> ordering number and name), see attached.
>
> /Jonatan
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