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Changing Padstack of Pin in a Symbol

I've searched the forum archives and found some posts that "sort of" answered my question, but none that had the answer I wanted to hear. I'm making the switch from an old version of Layout to Orcad PCB Editor 16.2 (Allegro), which means I am currently learning to create new footprint symbols. Rather than starting from scratch, I''ve been using existing symbols and simple editing them to meet my needs. What I would like to be able to do is to "change" the padstack definition for a pad (not edit, actually change to a different padstack) for pins on the symbol. Some of the forum posts mention that the only way to do this is to delete the existing pin and place a new one, surely there is an easier way.

Rik Lee over 16 years ago

I'm not sure how to accomlish this with SKILL however you can use Tools >Padstack >Replace in the editor. After invoking the command (replace padstack) you select the old and new in the Options tab and then select "Replace".
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fxffxf over 16 years ago

LIn Skill look at the API axlReplacePadstack
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rong96 over 16 years ago

This is in the SKILL forum but the user says he is using "Orcad PCB Editor 16.2 (Allegro"
So is he using Allegro or Orcad?
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PurdueMark over 16 years ago

First of all, my apoligies for posting in the SKILL forum, jumping back and forth between pages I must have mis-clicked somewhere.
Secondly, thanks for the answer, though I'm not sure how I over looked it in the frist place. A logical place to look for replacing a pad stack would be in tools-padstack-replace (duh).
And lastly, since Orcad Layout is now dead, I'm using OrCad PCB Editor, which is actually Allegro
Again, thanks for the quick reply and sorry for the mis-post
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