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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

How would this work - can you create "configurations" and mark each
component as "do not use in this configuration"? Can components also
have different values rather than just DNF? In the PCB design, can I
select the configuration and export a BOM and a position file which
will only have the required components for that configuration?  While
looking at the schematic, how do you convey that a component has
variations? In the documentation, how do we express the variations?
Will a report be automatically generated with the variations for all
configurations?

Cirilo

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:48 PM Oliver Walters
<oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Almost a year ago now I suggested a feature addition, allowing for marking parts in the schematic as "DO NOT FIT"
>
> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg38415.html
>
> I had made a lot of progress towards feature completion, however was told at the time that such a feature would not be accepted.
>
> A year later, and after a lot of frustration of  sending the wrong files out for manufacturer due to confusion about which parts are fitted, I'd like to raise the issue again.
>
> Currently parts are marked as "DNF" by setting a special field in the BOM and checking for this with a special export script.
>
> However, I feel (and I'm sure many would agree) that this information should be integral to the schematic representation itself. Some other EDA packages achieve this quite well.
>
> I presented a way to achieve this without breaking backwards compatibility with the file format.
>
> If the "new" file format is still far in the future, can this feature be considered again?
>
> Cheers,
> Oliver
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