Yes there is a secret way, which I think one or more of the responses described. When you are in the Orcad symbol, pull down options/part properties. Then pick "New". In name boxe, type NC. Then in value box, type the pins you want hard no-connect, delineated by commas. i.e. 3,7,23. If you have large numbers of them, you can make the string in excel, output ascii, then paste it into the value box. Patrick Westfeldt, Jr. 720-406-0887 _____ From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allegro fan Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:34 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Making NCs invisible in Orcad? Thank you all for your help. Yes, I was just hoping that there was a secret way to hide NC pins on the Orcad symbol in the same way that power pins can be hidden. From what I can tell there is no straight forward way to do this unless I missed something. Ray On 12/5/05, Ed Caldwell <Ed.Caldwell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ray, If you just want to get rid of the no connect square box and no connect "X" - add the no connect "X" to your zero length pin and change the graphic prefs for the no connect to non print and color white (or same color as your background) Ed Ed Caldwell Circuit Board Design Engineer Electronic Design Services, LLC Voice: 770-622-8707 Email: mailto:ed.caldwell@xxxxxxxxxx "David Greig" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/05/2005 09:55 AM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [PCB_FORUM] Re: Making NCs invisible in Orcad? Here's an example. You only need to add the NC property on one item of a multi part. There's not much error checking in Orcad, but allegro will barf if there is not agreement between the package pin count and the netlist. Best Regards David Greig ______________________________ GigaDyne Ltd Buchan House Carnegie Campus Dunfermline KY11 8PL United Kingdom t: +44 (0)1383 624 975 www.gigadyne.co.uk ______________________________ -----Original Message----- From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: <mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allegro fan Sent: 01 December 2005 20:22 To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Making NCs invisible in Orcad? Hello All, I do not want no-connect pins to be visible in my Orcad schematics. Currently, my best solution is to use zero-length lines for pins like NC1, NC2, NC3, etc. On ICs it's not so bad because its nice sometimes to be able to verify that a pin is in fact a no connect. But, having a "you haven't connected a pin" square show up on my diode symbol is driving me nuts. The schematic symbol looks like a 2-terminal diode, but the footprint is an sot-23. I want the damn NC pin to go away on the schematic! Any help on this? Thanks, Ray ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------- -- Virus scanned by Lumison.