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How to Draw Off Board Components

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How do I draw a schematic to show components that are not on the PC board itself?

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    On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:25:17 +0000, fanat9 wrote:

     

    This is PCB design software - schematics represents what's have to be on

    a board. You can create just a schematics for any other purpuses and

    have schematics + board layout for PCB. Or you can use "fake" components

    on the schematics(components drawn in "Symbols" layer for example).

     

    Or you can make a library component that has the symbol that you want,

    but that actually causes a connector to be laid down on the board.

     

    There's no good way to do it, but I would lean toward just putting down a

    regular old connector (not one that's pretending to be something else)

    and annotating the schematic with some text ("resistor", "transistor",

    etc.)

     

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    Tim Wescott

    Control system and signal processing consulting

    www.wescottdesign.com