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Multiple footprints in PCB Footprint property of OrCAD Symbol

PatEscher

Hello, 

is it still a commonly used practice to declare a list of footprints in the "PCB Footprint" property of the OrCAD Symbol, especially if you are using a CIS database?

or is it advisable that the ALT_SYMBOLS property is used for Allegro?
The benefit of using the "PCB Footprint" property would be, that the Schematic Engineer in OrCAD could directly set the Footprint for the Layout Engineer. But as far as i understand, Allegro is only using the ALT_SYMBOLS property (or FPList as legacy) to allow a Layout Engineer to select the Footprint. if ALT_SYMBOLS is not provided, then there is only the single "PCB Footprint" value available (which is annotated through the netlist) the Schematic Engineer selects.

What is current best practices?

Thanks

Patrick

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