Altium different physical pins but only one required

[Winter2]

Hello

New to Altium and I've tried searching but its hard to explain in search terms what I want.

I'm making a part, a switch with two LEDS.

The switch has two pins marked C and two pins marked 1 - so you can use either C and either 1 and the switch will work.
Currently in altium it is routing the C's together (electrically fine, but makes it hard to route other paths nearby)

How can I get the autorouter to choose the pin closest to where it wants to go? I've read up on pinswapping but that seems to be for FPGAs.. is that what I'm meant to be doing?


Cheers

Matt

 

[Anonymous_Ricky]

You can manually change the net connection on one of the pins to ""No net" by going to properties of that particular pin.
But please keep in mind that in any ECO update it will again get connected so please pay attention whenever you do schematic update on PCB.

 

[jimmyswimmy]

How can I get the autorouter to choose the pin closest to where it wants to go? I've read up on pinswapping but that seems to be for FPGAs.. is that what I'm meant to be doing?

You can use pin swapping for this pretty easily. Play with it, it's not too hard to get working. Just check once you're "done" - I once managed to swap the input and output pins and I'm convinced it was Altium's fault (not mine, heaven forbid!). I usually enable pin swapping on all multi-part components. Digital logic such as a 7404 is much easier to route when you can just swap one part for another and get a clean pretty layout.

In a related note - what are you thinking using Altium's autorouter? Fixing its mess is often more work than routing by hand, especially if you want the board to look good.