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hidden pins

I am having problems, I have a par with 3 output pins. in order to clean the symbol up they all have the same name and 2 are hidden. but if I try to connect these 3 together the one that is visible on the symbol flags an error.

Any ideas?

0 Sparkylabs over 7 years ago

I gave up in the end and un-hid them, but to make them show I had to restart CS. Another glowing feature of the 1.5 update*?

*to provide something that does nothing to get people to renew their subscription......
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0 Sparkylabs over 7 years ago

Having though I was clever I set my pins as outputs, this has caused a compilation ERROR. This is stupid, are Altium not aware that power IC's have multiple paralleled output pins????????????????????? Check out the BTS50015-1TAD and no doubt thousands of other parts......!
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0 e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to Sparkylabs

Did you try defining the pin type as "Power" rather than "Output" given they provide a Power pin type?
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0 Sparkylabs over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk

No there are 3 output pins, so I chose output as the type, the power supply pins are 1 ground and the positive tab. Simple answer is to leave them all as passive.
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