Thank you for your quick replies. Unfortunately, I don't think I adequately conveyed my question... your answers didn't tell me anything I don't already know. Please pardon me for not quoting them, here, as between the 3 I received so far, it would be a lot of text. I'm aware it is bad practice to hide power and ground pins (I hate symbols with hidden pins!) I'm aware of the option to redraw the symbol to look like the package, but the symbol creation guidelines suggest laying out symbols to be logical rather than reflect the actual look of the device. I've previously used AutoTrax and MultiSim (only the latter to produce a PCB) and never run into this issue - MultiSim's library is extensive enough so that I never had to create my own device. I find it difficult to believe that there is no mechanism in place to accomplish what I want - if that's true, I may just have to implement it. Allow me to once again try to state my problem. Both the FET and gyro I referenced in my initial email have multiple pins with the same purpose. This is different than having multiple but seperate power and ground connections (for an op-amp, for example). The SO8 package of the FET contains only 1 FET. It uses pins 1 through 3 for the source and 5-8 for the drain so it can handle more current than a single lead on that size package normally could. I'm not hiding any pins or forcing them to be connected - they actually are connected inside the device. The standard FET symbol still applies perfectly, as the device has only 3 connections despite having 8 pins. I think this is a bit clearer - is the only option for me to redraw the symbol to have 8 pins and then connect the ones that should be connected on the schematic?
Thanks again, Ryan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
