At 10:35 AM 1/17/2002 -0800, Afshin Salehi wrote: >Hello all, > I was wondering how I would go about placing a part on the > schematic but >not have it appear on the PCB. For example, I would have 3 resistors in >parallel labeled 100, 200, 300 and I would only want one of those three to >appear on the PCB when I updated it. Is there a way to set if a part is to >appear on the PCB or is that not possible?
If the footprint assigned to the part is one which does not exist in any library, such as "DO_NOT_USE", then no part will be created in the PCB, and any nodes for that footprint will be ignored. You will get a macro error telling you that footprint "DO_NOT_USE" was not found, which you will immediately recognize as intentional.... You can thus control which of the three resistors is used by controlling footprint assignment. I would display the footprint fields, I think you can do that, on the schematic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
