On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:49 -0700, bbruce888 wrote: > I have searched for quite awhile and I cannot seem to find the answer to this > seemingly easy question: > > How should I correctly associate a DNI or DNP (Do Not Populate) attribute to > a component so that the Pick & Place file will know not to include that > component in the final output BOM?
I'm not sure where you're looking here. You can make a component invisible to gEDA's netlisting by marking with the "graphical=1" attribute. This means no trace of it ends up in your PCB board either. OTOH, if you're just looking for a "NO FIT" type instruction, where I _do_ want the footprint on the PCB board - just empty, I typically just add the attribute "value=NO FIT" to that component. The assembly house I use seem to understand what I mean, and didn't complain that it appeared in the XY file used for programing the pick'n'place machine. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user