How to flip a component on pcb and stay on same side

Question

I have a radial electrolytic capacitor component that lays down on its side. If say it is upright (pins on bottom) and capacitor is bent down, with + on left and - on right. So now how do I flip it so - is on left and + is on right but capacitor is still upright (pins still on bottom).

Placing it on the other side won't work, as the silkscreen will be on the wrong side.

You can flip component on schematic (for the same reason to reverse the order of pins), but how do you do it on pcb?

Thanks

rachaelp · Answer

I think Rob has explained where things got a bit confused quite well so I wont rehash his explanation. In your situation creating package C was the correct things to do. It's still a variant within the device, but it's a variant with a different package. In the case above where you have package B pointing to variants B1, B2, B3, a use case for this could be if you have say a standard symbol for an NPN transistor and a SOT-23 package and you create a generic NPN component using these, then there are several combinations of pinouts possible for connecting B,C and E of the symbol to pins 1, 2 and 3 of the package. You use the variants to change the mapping of the symbol pins to the package pads. So in the terminology you gave above: Device NPN Package SOT-23 variant CBE // Maps pin 1 -> C, 2 -> B, 3 -> E Package SOT-23 variant BCE // Maps pin 2 -> B, 2 -> C, 3 -> E etc.... Note, this is not how I do transistors in my libraries but this is an example of how you could use the package variants in a useful way how you were trying to do. Best Regards, Rachael

How to flip a component on pcb and stay on same side

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