New component Design

[barefootst]

I'm busy making a Board-Board Connector 100 PIN SKT SMD. Well what is the best way to go to this.

Current steps would be:

1. Create a table in excel with the PIN,Name,Description
2. Import with SCH List and paste smart grid
3. Draw the block and add pins. Geehs thats going to take long 
4. PCB footprint

Here is the component name and link to the pdf's.

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/AXK500147BN1/255-2903-6-ND/2181736



Please help me out.
Stephan

[barefootst]

Isn't there a way to automatically connect all the pins to the component(rectangle). A wizard of some sort   

[Precipice]

place first pin, then copy it, then paste array. 30 seconds, including guessing which way the array will go, and whether the pins numbers will increment right:)

No need for Excel...
(The same works for complex stuff - copy and paste an array of pins, then paste the names and numbers in over them in the pin editor, having copied them from the datasheet pdf (ALT for column select). )
Bear in mind that you'll have to kick the pin inspector into 'edit' mode, rather than inspect - but that's less hidden than it used to be. No Altium on this machine, hence the vagueness, I'm afraid. Shout if you can't work it out. 

[Rufus]

Nice of Panasonic not to bother indicating which corner of the connector is pin 1 or if the numbering zig-zags or circles - that way we can demonstrate our individuality by choosing a scheme for ourselves.

[Precipice]

Ah, now _that's_ a candidate for the annoying components thread. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
Just declare a scheme, manufacturers,  nobody cares, as long as we all agree.
(I have a confession about an Amp/Tyco part. The datasheet labelled pins 1 and 12, for a 6x2 connector. I guessed wrong. It was an annoyance for the entire life of the project, and I imagine it's annoying in manufacture, too. Sorry, chaps!)

[avaldezc92]

place first pin, then copy it, then paste array. 30 seconds, including guessing which way the array will go, and whether the pins numbers will increment right:)

No need for Excel...
(The same works for complex stuff - copy and paste an array of pins, then paste the names and numbers in over them in the pin editor, having copied them from the datasheet pdf (ALT for column select). )
Bear in mind that you'll have to kick the pin inspector into 'edit' mode, rather than inspect - but that's less hidden than it used to be. No Altium on this machine, hence the vagueness, I'm afraid. Shout if you can't work it out.

I would do it the same way, probably the fastest way.