How to exclude a specific designator from assembly

[jiffaraka]

In my design I have a 4.7uF capacitor that’s not populated, while two others are to be included.

C45 is marked DNP in my KiCAD design, but I can’t seem to figure out how to exclude C45 while keeping C43 and C46 populated in my assembly order.

Is there a way through the web interface to DNP individual designators instead of excluding all the designators associated with a part number?

[Thea]

Hi there!

You can do that by selecting the individual view in the BOM editor.
We should, however, honor the settings from KiCad, so one does not have to do that manually.

@Tim-from-AISLER could you please take a look at this?

[jiffaraka]

If it helps resolve why the DNP parts weren’t auto excluded, here’s details about my KiCAD version.

Application: KiCad x64 on x64
Version: 9.0.3, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.8
FreeType 2.13.3
HarfBuzz 10.2.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.13.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3.1
Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
OpenGL: ATI Technologies Inc., Radeon RX 580 Series, 4.6.14800 Compatibility Profile Context 22.4.2 30.0.15021.7000
Build Info:
Date: Jul 8 2025 05:19:33
wxWidgets: 3.2.8 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.88.0
OCC: 7.9.1
Curl: 8.13.0-DEV
ngspice: 44
Compiler: Visual C++ 1942 without C++ ABI
KICAD_IPC_API=ON
Locale:
Lang: en_US
Enc: UTF-8
Num: 1,234.5
Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)

[Thea]

Hi there,

Thank you for the information. We looked into it, and right now we don’t process the flag set by Kicad. Our devs are working on it

[Thea]

We now process the DNP flag correctly. And when a component is set to “Exclude from BOM” it won’t be displayed in the BOM tool at all now. This change is live for uploading .kicad_pcb files and soon also available in the Push to AISLER plugin.