Pin Properties - Common to all units in symbol option

[fabian_muhlberger]

Hi,

is there a way to uncheck the “Common to all units in symbol” option in the pin properties? Or can it be done in the editor via Regex? If not, I have to change about 200 Pins…

Best
Fabian

EDIT:
From what I can see, a pin becomes unique on a unit when it is in a different symbol eg. the symbol “AAA_0_0” vs “AAA_2_0”. Is there an efficient way to do this or do I have to copy-paste the pins to different Units?

(symbol "AAA_0_0"
      (pin passive line (at 1.27 3.81 0) (length 5.08)
        (name "2" (effects (font (size 1.27 1.27))))
        (number "" (effects (font (size 1.27 1.27))))
      )
      (pin passive line (at 1.27 -3.81 0) (length 5.08)
        (name "3" (effects (font (size 1.27 1.27))))
        (number "" (effects (font (size 1.27 1.27))))
      )
    )
    (symbol "AAA_2_0"
      (pin passive line (at 25.4 6.35 0) (length 5.08)
        (name "1" (effects (font (size 1.27 1.27))))
        (number "" (effects (font (size 1.27 1.27))))
      )
    )
  )
)

[mf_ibfeew]

is there a way to uncheck the “Common to all units in symbol” option in the pin properties?

Currently there is no convenient way to change this setting. For the future a “property manager” is promised which should allow bulk-editing of item- and pin-properties.

From what I can see, a pin becomes unique on a unit when it is in a different symbol eg. the symbol “AAA_0_0” vs “AAA_2_0”.

Yes, and this opens a possibility with a texteditor for “200 pins”:

• work with a copy of your symbol - in case anything with my description goes wrong
• prepare a texteditor with a new empty textfile (will not be saved)
• switch to the symbol with the 200 pins (or with many pins)
• change at least one pin to “unique/uncommon”-setting
• select all pins an the unit
  -CTRL-C to copy. Than ENTF to delete all pins in the symbol
• switch to texteditor, CTRL-V to copy
• you get a text similar to your example above
• select all pins on the symbol "AAA_0_0-section and move these pins to the symbol "AAA_1_0-section
• the already changed pin-setting (from the first 3.step) should show the position to insert the insert the pin-lines
• select whole text, CTRL-C and paste (CTRL-V) into symbol-editor again.

I think this whole work is only useful for >=16 pins per unit, for fewer pins the simple work of changing every pin-property alone is faster.