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We should see that all the pads on the footprint are now highlighted, indicated that the part is
fully packaged. Simply hit the ‘Assign Package’ button at the bottom of the Visual Packaging
Tool to commit and return to the Make Device dialogue form.
It is possible (and extremely useful) to have more than one packaging for a given
component. We could, for example, follow the exact same procedure to add a
DIL18 footprint to the component. Where more than one packaging exists you can
specify the one which will be used by default by checking the default box
underneath the package name in the Visual Packaging Tool.
Click the next button at the bottom of the dialogue form to move onto the Property definitions
section.
Adding Properties
This screen allows us to add component properties to the device. We looked at doing this on a
particular instance of a device (the part on the schematic) earlier in the documentation; the
difference is that properties entered here will be stored in the master library part and therefore
available every time we use the part in a design.
We can see that the PACKAGE property is already defined – this was what we configured
visually on the previous screen
Package preview on the Make Device form