Hello. I making a pcb which has 1n4148 diodes in it. I want the final pcb to have both the option for through-hole and smd (sod-123). So i combined both footprints together, deleted the 2 extra designators, and drew 2 area fills to connect the 2 pair of pads together. I also unchecked solder mask expansion so that this area is masked. The footprint looks correct but i get routing, clearance and short-circuit errors because altium doesn't like the way i did this. How do i fix it? Attached the footprint:
You can make your life much easier by placing and connecting both components in the schematic circuit and use variant placement to populate one or the other.
If you prefer a combi footprint, you need to map all terminals to the circuit symbol, otherwise you get DRC errors. But I guess, you'll also get problems when extracting SMD and THT pick and place.
In this case this was easier for me since i'm not experienced enough to use that. I actually just got it to work properly, i had to delete the pads and make identical ones with place solid region and it works perfectly now
Well i have another problem now..altium routes in between the footprint because it doesn't know there is a trace there...how do i prevent this?
- - - Updated - - -
Actually now i went back to my original plan and works..however i had to auto-route 2 times because altium didn't finish all the routing, even though it said it did?..wtf..