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Swapping pins on passives - what is the easiest way?

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peter.mitchell:
I've been using Altium for a fair while now and have never really bothered to look into it, but for passives like resistors, inductors, ceramic caps, is there an easy way to automatically allow pin swapping?
I understand you can define pin swapping configs for components and pin groupings/pair groupings, but that would be a bit of a pain to do for every passive on every layout.
The reason it comes to mind now specifically is that I am using a few non-symmetrical passives, so i can't just rotate the part 180 degrees, instead I just rotate it 180 degrees in the schematic and then update pcb from schematic.
Is there an easier/quicker way or is that probably as fast/easy as it gets?

Psi:
I just 'copy' an existing component and 'paste' it into my own library then change the pins and then use that.

peter.mitchell:

--- Quote from: Psi on February 28, 2014, 06:07:13 am ---I just 'copy' an existing component and 'paste' it into my own library then change the pins and then use that.

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fair enough; i thought there may just be a simple option for setting polarized passive vs non-polarized passive, and thus allowing either pin to either net. i'll show you a small example;
In this situation, i would normally rotate the inductor in the schematic to allow the pins to align i just thought there might be an easier way.

poorchava:
You may try to flip component over X or Y axis using 'x' and 'y' buttons, but I remember there was an annoying window popping up if you did that in pcb editor, asking if you are sure (fair enough - this is fatal for most types of components).

peter.mitchell:

--- Quote from: poorchava on February 28, 2014, 09:47:14 am ---You may try to flip component over X or Y axis using 'x' and 'y' buttons, but I remember there was an annoying window popping up if you did that in pcb editor, asking if you are sure (fair enough - this is fatal for most types of components).

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yeah, I thought of that, but i have some components that arent symmetrical so that won't work

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