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Parts not in schematic that need to be in a BOM

sfenwick

When I was using Cadence Capture about 8 years ago at another company, we had the ability to add tables of parts to a design to allow us to add parts that were part of the BOM for design tracking purposes but not part of the schematic (e.g., documents). We could also (IIRC) overload properties on parts in the schematic when the correct part was not available in the parts database.

Flash forward to now, trying to do the same with OrCAD Design Entry CIS 16.6, and I am struggling with finding the correct approach for this. Has anyone else tried to do this and succeeded?

Thanks!

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  • redwire

    The easiest way is to add pinless parts to the schematic.  These will not netlist and appear in the parts manager when generating the BOM.

    The other method is to add the mechanical BOM parts in CIS.  This is too complicated for most and really requires some good prep and training to execute in most environments.

    And yes, you can override properties in the schematic and they will appear in the BOM but Parts Manager (PM) will not give you a "green light" if you do a validation of the BOM in PM.

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  • redwire

    The easiest way is to add pinless parts to the schematic.  These will not netlist and appear in the parts manager when generating the BOM.

    The other method is to add the mechanical BOM parts in CIS.  This is too complicated for most and really requires some good prep and training to execute in most environments.

    And yes, you can override properties in the schematic and they will appear in the BOM but Parts Manager (PM) will not give you a "green light" if you do a validation of the BOM in PM.

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