Hello, I can’t find a footprint to add a DC-DC converter traco TEN5-1211 in my project. Has anyone already used such a component?
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As far as I can tell it has 0.1 in pin spacing and 0.6 in row spacing. You should be able to make a footprint with the DIP footprint wizard. Just don’t assign numbers to the unused pins.
Being able to make symbol and footprint should be a skill all eCAD users should learn.
In this case TRACO have partnered with SamacSys have a footprint
If I know that a component has X pins (or if I see them on the footprint) then I want to see them somehow on the symbol. If I don’t then I feel the need to go back and check what is going on…
You’ll have a lot of checking for this part. IIRC of 24 pin postions, only 8 are used. And anyway if you forget to use a pin, ERC will tell you. So why clutter the symbol with pins that will terminate in a NC cross?
Numbers are only used to connect symbol pins with footprint pads. Nothing says that they have to be start at 1, be consecutive, or gap-free. In fact they don’t even have to be numbers, but usually they are, for common footprints.
In fact the manufacturer could have labelled them 1-8 but used the numbers to relate to a normal DIP footprint. In OP’s case I would also look at deleting the unused pads.
