In Altium, the (not so) obvious way was to set the Fiducial component type to "Standard (No BOM)", but this also prevents them from showing up in the Pick&Place output.
I could set the type so "Standard" and manually add a filter in the BOM each time, but that is far from ideal. The filter does not support using a negative mask (like: "hide all where designator contains FD*) and its cumbersome.
The preferred way would be if the behavior is tied to the Fiducial component itself.
Does the typical manufacturer actually care if Fiducials appear in the P&P data or not? (the last one cried at me for not having them in the P&P data). But isn't the same extra step required if you have a panelized design with "extra" Fiducials on the panel which have no reference coordinate with respect to the board?
Am I missing some easy way to achieve it?
How do you do it?
Best Answer
It's simple to do but annoying.
In schematic editor, select it as Standard (No BOM) And in pcb editor, select it as Standard
But remember everytime you import changes in pcb, just untick the fiducial type change.