Hello All,
I had a project recently that required a lot of pads to be used for cabling and off-board components. However there was no pad placeholder that I could use in the schematic view that could be translated directly to the PCB view.
I crudely got round the problem by making a single pin SIP component in the component wizard. However, I found this to be a messy solution as it then turned up in the bill of materials report and confused the net routing when I replaced the redundant components with pads.
I propose that it would be beneficial to have a pad placeholder function in the schematic view that complements the function in the PCB view.
Any circuit diagrams with off-board connections could then look complete in the schematic view and include complete and correct net connections that can be translated without error to the PCB layout.
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