topic Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM in Fusion Electronics Forum

Include/exclude component in/from BOM

silvio3105 — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 15:22:56 GMT

Hi,

Can user somehow have (same) component but somehow place component without footprint.

In my case I have SH1106 1.3" I2C OLED display. I can solder that display on PCB and in that case I want to have that display in BOM.

In other case I want to mount display on enclosure, so in that case I want to place only display in schematic, but not on PCB and exclude component from PCB BOM.

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

silvio3105 — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:14:02 GMT

Bump!

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

jorge_garcia — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:01:27 GMT

Hi @silvio3105,

I hope you're doing well. This sounds like a good use case for variants. If the component is populated then you solder it to the PCB and it's included on the default BOM ulp. If the component is not populated then it will not be included in the BOM.

Best Regards,

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

silvio3105 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:58:42 GMT

I'm not sure do I understand what you mean.

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

jorge_garcia — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:36:35 GMT

Hi @silvio3105,

I hope you're doing well. Since you could build the board in 2 different ways or "variants" you could use the Assembly Variants feature to create a variation of your board that doesn't have the screen populated. When you generate the bom.ulp you can select what variant to produce the BOM for. If you pick the default('') then the screen will be mounted to the PCB and soldered down. If you pick your other variant then the screen will not be populated on the PCB and the BOM will reflect that.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Best Regards,

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

silvio3105 — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 17:02:14 GMT

But in that case it will be big X over component in schematic.

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

CGBenner — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:05:16 GMT

@jorge_garcia 👆

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

silvio3105 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:48:48 GMT

Maybe he's on vacation?

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

C.Nicks — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:50:22 GMT

In the standard Eagle desktop version you can create a library part with the library attribute _EXTERNAL_ in order to have a schematic symbol and device without a footprint.

That part would have to be a separate version than a footprinted version.

I also use a custom BOM export script that will excluded any component with an BOM->EXCLUDE attribute regardless of the variant populated status.

Things like that might be a bit harder to handle in Fusion since the attributes within libraries are hard to find/modify.

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

silvio3105 — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:39:08 GMT

I know for _EXTERNAL_ but c'mon, it's 2022, why mix old way with new?

Re: Include/exclude component in/from BOM

silvio3105 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:07:08 GMT

Bump!