BOM reporting questions

[Anonymous]

if i place a fuse in the schematic area of the prints and add catalog info to that fuse, will it double my part count of fuse if I put a fuse holder on the panel layout and list the fuse as a multiple catalog item to be able to use the balloons. 

Thanks

jason

[Icemanau]

The way to do this without causing problems is to place the fuse in the schematic dwg, and then make the fuseholder a sub component of the fuse.

Next, you set the footprint of the fuseholder to be the footprint of the actual fuse.

When you insert the fuseholder into the panel layout, you select the TAG from the fuse as the tag for the footprint. This ties the two together and makes it so that ACADE only see's them as one component instead of two different components with the same TAG.

For example, I have a 2A fuse with a catalog number of NS2, a sub component of SC32H and a TAG of FS10. When I insert the footprint, I use the block showing a SC32H fuseholder and select the actual fuse TAG of FS10 from the components list. This means that the footprint shows up with the same TAG as the fuse on the panel layout and makes it easier to match to the schematic. It also fills in the INST and LOC data if you use those to match the fuse.

Now when you run the BOM from the panel dwg or the schematic, you should get the correct count for fuse components.

What you are doing however is to insert the fuse twice, once in the schematic and once in the panel layout. This is what's doubling your fuse count.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the input. Will give it a try.

thanks

Jason