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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/14/2010 06:59 AM, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>   
>> [...] "Installed" (e.g. value=DNS) [...]
>>     
> What would you think of elevating "Installed" (or whatever it
> would be called in the end) to the rank of Footprint ? I.e., a
> permanent field with an immutable name.
>
> That way, eeschema could automaticaly flag absent components,
> e.g., by using some graphical highlighting or perhaps just
> appending "DNS", "DNP", "NC", "NP", etc., before or after the
> component reference, a BOM generator could remove such
> components without having to worry about project-specific
> naming conventions, and even ERC could take this flag into
> account.
>
> - Werner
>
>   

"Installed" will be one of my personal template fieldnames.  It can be
one of yours too.