After having labeled 30 pins, I switched the layout and lost the previous pin labels.

When I was just learning this tool, I decided on a particular layout for a component but then found an option that better suited my needs. Once again, this is wonderfully useful and easy, but there are some things that need improvement. If your part does not meet any of the standard shapes, you can place pads in any fashion you desire to meet your unique requirements. It is here that you would also add any silkscreen markings to the pattern that you desire. You are not constrained by standard round, oval, or square pads you can import pad shapes from a DXF file. Using the Pattern Editor you can define an initial pattern of pads and pad shapes. Starting in the pattern editor, you have a number of predefined shapes that are available to the user with various sizing options. The first part is the Pattern Editor and the second part is the Component Editor. This feature is broken up into two parts.

It is very fast to create a custom part that you know will meet your needs. With this wizard, I never had a need to go out and look for a part library on the Internet. For those times when the part that you need is not in the standard library, DipTrace has a wonderful - yet deceptively simple - Footprint Wizard.

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