mechanical part on bom

[gtoner2506]

I have a design with a fuse holder that mounts an automotive mini fuse. I would like to have the fuse appear in the bom for the design. I have made a symbol for the fuse with no pins and added the necessary attributes to the device and placed it on the schematic. It, however does not appear on the bom. I've tried adding pins to the symbol with no effect. Any ideas?

[HelenChen-ElectronicsQA]

Hi @gtoner2506 ,

Sorry to hear that you're having trouble.

Please try below steps:

1. Add pads for the footprint in the library, and then connect the symbol and footprint in the device > Save library file.
2. Then back to the schematic file > Library Tab > Libraries > Click Update design from all libraries used in this design icon > Then run the bom ULP again. 
3. Now you should see the fuse in the bom list.

Hope it helps and please feel free to let us know if you need our further assistant. 

Regards,

Helen

[gtoner2506]

Sorry for the delay in responding - your suggestion is what i normally do to have an electrical part appear in the schematic, 2d board, 3d board and bom. By adding the pads this part will appear on the 2d board and the pads will appear on the pcb when fabricated. This is not a very professional solution - having stray pads on the pcb for no good reason. I do not know the following as a fact but i suspect that if I were to leave these unwanted pads outside of the board boundary I would get questions from the design check by the fabricator. We should be allowed to make a schematic symbol with attributes which appear on the bom, a related 3d model but without any related footprint. In my case I have an automotive blade type fuse which mounts in a blade fuse socket which I want to appear on the bom so that at assembly time the fuse can be mounted in the socket to complete the assembly.

[HelenChen-ElectronicsQA]

Hi @gtoner2506 ,

So sorry for my delay.

Could you please check this post and see whether the workaround mentioned there is good for you or not?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/eagle-forum/feature-request-allow-devices-without-footprint-in-schema...

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Helen