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Is it possible to make a resistor pack symbol where the resistor values are independent?

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I have a customer who prefer as many of the resistors in their designs be in 8 pin DIP resistor packs, so the resistors can be changed out easily. Is it possible to make a single device made up of four independent resistors? I could just write the resistor values onto the schematic, but I was hoping for a cleaner way.

 

Thanks in advance.

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    interesting idea,

     

    to the best of my knowledge, all devices with multiple gates share the same ">VALUE" field, so the quick answer is no.


    but you could just line up 4 individual resistors on the pcb in a way that could accept a dip package.

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    On 25/04/2014 12:37 p.m., Josh Pyne wrote:

    I have a customer who prefer as many of the resistors in their designs

    be in 8 pin DIP resistor packs, so the resistors can be changed out

    easily. Is it possible to make a single device made up of four

    independent resistors? I could just write the resistor values onto the

    schematic, but I was hoping for a cleaner way.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

     

    Have a look at the library resistor-dil.lbr

    Device 4R-N

    That places onto the schematic as 4 resistors which you can move around

    separately.  When you specify the value for one of the resistors, all 4

    pick up the same value, which what you often want for resistor packs.

     

    On the board there is the one 8 contact package.

     

    If this is not what you were after, ask again.

     

    Cheers

    Warren

     

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    On 04/24/2014 08:37 PM, Josh Pyne wrote:

    I have a customer who prefer as many of the resistors in their designs

    be in 8 pin DIP resistor packs, so the resistors can be changed out

    easily. Is it possible to make a single device made up of four

    independent resistors? I could just write the resistor values onto the

    schematic, but I was hoping for a cleaner way.

     

    Josh,

     

    There isn't a clean way of doing this.  I fiddled around with it a bit

    to no avail.  I even tried adding an attribute to each gate - no joy.

     

    Attached is a library file with a DIL08 package without the pads.  I

    added marks where the PTH pads from the resistor package should be

    centered.  This can be added to your board without affecting the

    schematic, and used as a guide in placing the individual resistors.  You

    may also need to create a 2-pad package for each resistor with 300mil

    spacing between the pads.

     

    HTH,

        - Chuck