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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 08/07/2012 13:58, Paul Sturpe wrote:

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

     

     

    Several approaches have been suggested.

     

    Personally I have an "OFFBOARD" part (as part of my

    frames/document-fields/documentation library) which has a symbol

    containing only its name and value and a package containing the same (on

    the Documentation layer).

     

    This allows me to build a list of off-board parts on both the schematic

    and PCB, which I typically put in a corner of the frame, along with any

    notes.

     

    The benefit of doing this, rather than just adding text notes, is that

    the off-board parts can be assigned attributes, such as order numbers,

    so that they can be automatically added to the BoM along with the

    on-board components.

     

    Just my 2c.

     

     

    Andrew

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    Thanks for the suggestions from all.  I haven't figured out how to create the symbols so they will show up only in the schematic and not propagate to the board, but I'll work on it.

     

    Do I have to create the symbols from scratch, or is there a way to copy an existing symbol and save it in a different layer so that adding it to my schematic will not add a component to the board?  If so, can someone give me a little more detail on how to do it or point me the area of the help file to study?

     

    As you can probably tell, I'm pretty new at this!

     

    Paul

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    Thanks for the suggestions from all.  I haven't figured out how to create the symbols so they will show up only in the schematic and not propagate to the board, but I'll work on it.

     

    Do I have to create the symbols from scratch, or is there a way to copy an existing symbol and save it in a different layer so that adding it to my schematic will not add a component to the board?  If so, can someone give me a little more detail on how to do it or point me the area of the help file to study?

     

    As you can probably tell, I'm pretty new at this!

     

    Paul

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