If you are sending a board off for assembly and your manufacturer keeps asking why your test points are in the BOM, here is the fix that finally worked for me in EasyEDA Pro.
I had a set of test points that were just bare PCB pads. No fitted part. No metal loop. Nothing to place. But they were still ending up in the BOM export, which then caused questions from the assembler because they looked like parts that needed to be sourced.
That is where the confusion started.
The problem
At first glance in EasyEDA Pro, it looks like the obvious setting is Add into BOM. I found a checkbox near that field and naturally assumed that was the thing that controlled whether the test point appeared in the assembly data.
It was not.
That setting was misleading in this case because it seemed more like it was generating or displaying the text, not actually stopping the component from being treated as something that belonged in the exported assembly output.
What finally worked
The actual fix was in Basic Properties.
For the test point component:
- there was a checkbox next to the text box containing the designator, like
TP1 - beside that was a dropdown showing Yes
- changing that dropdown from Yes to No stopped it from exporting the way I wanted
Once I changed that and exported again, it did the trick.
Why this is confusing
The awkward part is that the setting you want is not especially obvious when you are thinking in normal assembly terms.
As a user, I was thinking:
- this is a bare pad
- it should stay on the PCB
- it should not be in the BOM
- it should not be treated like a fitted component
That feels like it should be controlled by a very explicit setting like:
- include in assembly
- fitted part yes or no
- include in BOM yes or no
Instead, the working control was tucked away in a way that was easy to misunderstand.
The practical takeaway
If your EasyEDA Pro design has test points that are only bare PCB pads, and they are showing up in the BOM or causing questions from your board house:
- select the test point component
- open Basic Properties
- find the dropdown that shows Yes
- change it to No
- export the BOM again
That was the source-of-truth fix.
Why this matters
It is always better to fix this in the design itself rather than patching spreadsheets after export.
If the CAD file is correct:
- your BOM is cleaner
- your assembly files are cleaner
- your manufacturer asks fewer questions
- your design remains the source of truth
That is especially important when you come back to the board later or order another batch.
Final note
If the test point is truly just a bare pad, it should not be treated like a purchasable part. The goal is to keep the electrical connection point on the PCB without turning it into something the assembler thinks they need to buy and place.
In my case, the issue was not that EasyEDA Pro could not do it. It was that the right control was much less intuitive than expected.
If this saves someone else half an hour of clicking around, good.
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