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How to convert a pin to only drill/hole for connector clamping in an updated footprint?

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I have this symbol in a library project that has been created some years ago.

Today I was translating the project to 16.6 starting by updating libs. Then I created the netlist and this process was OK, without any error. When I try to update PCB from netlist the process launches the following error:

ERROR(SPMHNI-196): Symbol 'CONNVMEST64PACACODADO' for device 'DIN 64_AC-H_1_CONNVMEST64PACACO' has extra pin 'X2'.

ERROR(SPMHNI-196): Symbol 'CONNVMEST64PACACODADO' for device 'DIN 64_AC-H_1_CONNVMEST64PACACO' has extra pin 'X1'.

The fact is that symbol has no X1 and X2 pins. When I open the fooprint layout I can see how two holes for clamping the connector to the board is considered as two more pins:

I'm sure this two holes were created originally not for being pins connectors neither pads.

How can I access the footprint drill X2 and X1 above in order to say that these holes are not a pins?

Thanks in advance to everyone.

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  • Thanks to all of you!

    I solved this problem following the steps below:

    1. I deleted the pins.
    2. After this, I went to the "add pin" item from bar menu and then I checked "mechanical" option from "options" right tab.
    3. Then I chose the "padstack" that I want to put there. And that's how I had drawn my no electric holes. 

    But even doing this way, it gives me errors when I tried to generate netlist and update the board. But I have faced this other issue as follows:

    1. This launched that two pins have missmatched because the symbol hasn't two more electric pins. So I tried one more thing, that was to save this footprint with another name, as it was a new footprint.
    2. Then I removed the old footprint file from schematic symbols and I linked the new one (the same draw but other name) to this connector symbol from the symbol library, schematic and lib cache.
    3. Hence I started the netlist and update pcb board processes and voila. No error.

    So, it makes me think that there was some issue with corrupted or mistaken data that was automatically generated in some translation file at the moment of original library translation.

    Thanks for all of your suggestions. They still been so helpful. 

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  • Thanks to all of you!

    I solved this problem following the steps below:

    1. I deleted the pins.
    2. After this, I went to the "add pin" item from bar menu and then I checked "mechanical" option from "options" right tab.
    3. Then I chose the "padstack" that I want to put there. And that's how I had drawn my no electric holes. 

    But even doing this way, it gives me errors when I tried to generate netlist and update the board. But I have faced this other issue as follows:

    1. This launched that two pins have missmatched because the symbol hasn't two more electric pins. So I tried one more thing, that was to save this footprint with another name, as it was a new footprint.
    2. Then I removed the old footprint file from schematic symbols and I linked the new one (the same draw but other name) to this connector symbol from the symbol library, schematic and lib cache.
    3. Hence I started the netlist and update pcb board processes and voila. No error.

    So, it makes me think that there was some issue with corrupted or mistaken data that was automatically generated in some translation file at the moment of original library translation.

    Thanks for all of your suggestions. They still been so helpful. 

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