How to create power planes that shorts multiple pins in a footprint

Hi

The DRC error you receive when creating the PCB footprint is to be expected because the editor is seeing an un-named net shape touching those pads. This error is not unique to your footprint.

When you package the design and are doing the layout of the board the shapes on pins 5&6, 7&8 will have the same net name as the pins because they are packaged and that original drc error will go away.

More than likely after packaging the design and generating a netlist you may receive another DRC about the shape to smd pin distance. You can set the correct distance in the CM to fix this.

One thing on this. Create your Schematic Symbol so that it has all 8 pins and wire it up so that pins 5&6 , 7&8 are shorted with a wire - aka a net name. Since the schematic drives the PCB Editor the pins and shapes that exist in the footprint will take on the net names from the schematic.

See if that works for you, the footprint looks pretty good in the picture, maybe fix those shapes in-place so there is no chance they will move in the PCB Layout. Check also that you have a soldermask defined for those shapes as you probably don't want to have that copper masked over.

To illustrate here is a picture. Notice the net name on the IC Pins and the shape took on those net names after netlisting.

Lastly it is possible to Waive the DRC Error after creating the footprint so it wont show up. It is kind of a personal preference to do that or not. One could also create the pins with shapes and use the shape as a physical pad pin too, though that is extra baggage and technically your package would no longer have 8 physical pins but 6 instead.