I want to send a board off for fab + assembly soon which will include various jumpers in 2 or 3 pin configurations. For example, see this picture below (sorry about quality). I'd like to specify the 2P header to have a jumper installed, and for the 3P header, the jumper is installed on pins 1-2.
Is there any standard way of specifying this in either the BOM, Gerbers, or elsewhere? At prototype levels I can install them myself but at production this is infeasible. I'm sure worst case I can include a readme file with assembly notes.
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Gerbers are not the right place to put such information, as they are meant for PCB manufacture only.
I would create an Assembly Drawing document that shows how components are placed and add any necessary notes for jumpers.
Here's a snippet from one of my assembly drawings.