Add Mechanical type of components, disable pin count for them

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cal1285
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Add Mechanical type of components, disable pin count for them

#1 Post by cal1285 » 24 Nov 2021, 22:23

I'd like to have an option to mark my component as mechanical to remove it's pin count from total pin count in PCB's Layout information.
I frequently use mounting holes like on the picture (as a component, because it's handy), and it is pain to always manually account for their pads (pins) count to get correct solder points quantity for production.
Also I don't want to completely get rid of pins. I'd like to have opportunity to electrically connect different (separated) parts of mechanical part to different nets. Simplest case would be to connect such a hole to the ground, for example.
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Thanks for your hard work.

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