Accessing the "Do not place" attribute from pcbnew

[Daniel O'Connor]

Hi,
I'd like to modify a plugin to honour the DNP flag - it runs in pcbnew as an action plugin - however I can't see how I can get the flag.

Does anyone know how I can do that? (or if it's possible :)

I also wonder how hard it would be to add a flag to the 3d viewer to not display parts which have the DNP flag fitted.


Also, while looking through the Kicad code to try and see how it worked I found this in kicad/cli/command_export_sch_bom.cpp:
bomJob->m_groupSymbols = m_argParser.get<bool>( ARG_GROUP_SYMBOLS );
bomJob->m_groupSymbols = m_argParser.get<bool>( ARG_EXCLUDE_DNP );

It seems like the first assignment is dead (assuming there aren't any side effects)..

Thanks.

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[Seth Hillbrand]

Hi Daniel-

Your access it like this:

for fp in b.Footprints():
    p = fp.GetProperties()
    if 'dnp' in p.keys():
        print("DNP: " + fp.GetReference())

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[Mike Williams]

Hi Daniel,

I needed the Do not place attribute properly propagated to footprints as part of some work on the BOM exporter I have been doing. I went ahead and added a toggle to the 3D viewer for showing/hiding models for footprints with DNP set.

Mike

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[Daniel O'Connor]

Hi Seth,

> On 10 Apr 2023, at 23:04, Seth Hillbrand <se...@kipro-pcb.com> wrote:
> Your access it like this:
>
> for fp in b.Footprints():
> p = fp.GetProperties()
> if 'dnp' in p.keys():
> print("DNP: " + fp.GetReference())

Thanks, that works a treat.

[Daniel O'Connor]

Hi Mike,

> On 11 Apr 2023, at 02:54, Mike Williams <mikebw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I needed the Do not place attribute properly propagated to footprints as part of some work on the BOM exporter I have been doing. I went ahead and added a toggle to the 3D viewer for showing/hiding models for footprints with DNP set.

Excellent, thanks :)