At my PPoE, if the components were assembled on the PCB, that's the way it was done. If they were connected to something (screw grounded), that connection was shown, too. If the parts were assembled at a later time, then the parts are shown at the higher level assembly.
It depends at what level they're assembled (and perhaps inventoried), IMO.
We even had a symbol on the schematic that looked something like a screw. The PCB looked sorta like the outline of the board, too.
That's why we did it. There were no manual fixups in the board BOM allowed.
And you can "lock" components in place. I wish you could lock a hole in place but I don't see that option available in Eagle version 6.x
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Den fredag den 17. juni 2016 kl. 02.11.17 UTC+2 skrev krw:
having a PCB symbol on the schematic also handles when the PCB outline and screw holes are made by the guy doing mechanics, that then become the "foot print" for the PCB symbol
also means you can automatically update your parts inventory extracting the parts used
-Lasse
The mechanical guys don't do touch the PCB at the CPoE. They send a CAD drawing to the layout guy. At the PPoE, it was much the same. I put some mechanical components on the board but only when it made sense. Usually the BOM chain is left to the manufacturing engineer. They decide what order to build and what level of parts to inventory.
Yes, but as long as everything is on a BOM, at some level, it all works out. The question is how it gets there. I'm all in favor of putting everything on the schematic that gets assembled and inventoried at the board level. I guess it's simpler to say that I want everything on the schematic that I'm responsible for. If it's a higher level of assembly, let someone else worry about it. ;-)
Not in version 7.6 either. I suggest you turn off the Holes layer when moving things around.
I don't know how to do that. I placed a symbol on my schematic and the BOM utility does not recognize it. Do you have some further hints?
Is your symbol in the library and inserted into the schematic as any other component or is it just a picture?
In the library as a symbol and a component although there is no package associated with it.
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