Internally conected pins, how to deal with?

[ElektroQuark]

Hello,

I want to make a schematic and footprint symbols for the typical 4 pin pushbutton.
It has two pairs of pins connected internally.
How must they be managed so if one of them is connected to a net Altium sees both connected? Same name? Setting any internal property?

Thank you.

[poorchava]

You can place multiple pins in footprint editor that will have the same designator. When you doubleclick a pin (or righclick and go to properties) there is 'designator field'. The effect is that you have multiple package pins connected to one schematic pin.

[ElektroQuark]

So I need a two pin schematic symbol not a four pined one.

[Psi]

The schematic symbol will have 2 connections, eg. designator 1 and 2
The footprint will have 4 TH/SMD pads  two with the designator of 1 and two with the designator of 2

[ElektroQuark]

Solved.
Thank you.

[poorchava]

Small note: I consider doing the above a bad design practice in general. For a small design and uncomplicated parts it's ok. I try as much as I can to have a schematic symbol that has exactly one symbol pin per one package pin. just a good design practice.

[Rufus]

Small note: I consider doing the above a bad design practice in general. For a small design and uncomplicated parts it's ok. I try as much as I can to have a schematic symbol that has exactly one symbol pin per one package pin. just a good design practice.

That depends on if you consider a schematic to be a graphical method of entering netlist and partlist to make a PCB  or if you consider a schematic to be a document showing the scheme of a circuit.

[ElektroQuark]

Small note: I consider doing the above a bad design practice in general. For a small design and uncomplicated parts it's ok. I try as much as I can to have a schematic symbol that has exactly one symbol pin per one package pin. just a good design practice.

How is done "the proper way" then?

[tszaboo]

Depends how you want to connect the button. You can tell alitum that they are internally connected, (in the SCHlib editor) but that can lead to a design, where two GND regions are only connected through the button. I dont recomend that option for this.
The best way to do this is to have all four pin on the schematic, and enable pin swapping for the two pairs.