The Allegro PCB Editor release has a few new capabilities related to symbol pins. The Symbol Editor has been enhanced with a new utility designed to automatically renumber pins based on positional qualifiers. The path to the utility is ‘Layout – Renumber Pins’. Open an existing footprint file. Once in the symbol editor, go to Layout – Renumber Pins. Experiment with different renumbering options. Perhaps delete rows and columns of pins with the intent of creating a smaller symbol. Experiment with other .dra files you may have on hand: The Symbol Editor now supports both exporting and importing of pin-based .CSV files. The format of the file supports . Open a .new csv using Excel (see the figure below for an example). We are looking to build a new symbol with the pin pitch of the x coordinated shifted by 50 mils. Replace ‘X’ values: -150 with 200; -150 with -200. Save the file: Invoke the Symbol Editor then open a .dra Go to File – Import – CSV Pin File. Enable ‘Delete existing pins’. Click ‘Import’: Please share your experiences using these new features. Jerry “GenPart” Grzenia![]()
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