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2 Pads having the same Pin number

Hello

I designed a foot print for a connector" The suggested footprint looks like the one below. This connecteur only have 2 positions, so this means 2 pads are electrically connected.

on my layout on Orcad PCB editor, i designed one as being the electrical pin and the other one being the mechanical one. The idea is that when I connect the line, i can start from one or the other pad, and the software will know the pin is connected. unfortunately, I cannot connect a mechanical pad, and i cannot design a pad with 2 shapes.

how am I supposed to do it?

Thanks a lot

redwire over 8 years ago

You need to make sure that any pins that are connected electrically have a pin number. You will have to adjust your schematic symbol accordingly.
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S0undman99 over 8 years ago

I would look up the PACK_SHORT property. You can add this in part developer for DE_HDL. I'm not sure about Orcad. This allows the packager to know that when it packages the design, that these pins are shorted together. The other option, which is what I think redwire is suggesting, is to have a total of four schematic pins that then map to the the four physical pins, and then just connect those pins together on the schematic.
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