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I tried to create a custom pad shape in altium desginer 14 for my pcblib but i missing a option in altium to assign a designator to the region.
i already assigned solder/paste mask and now placed a pad in the middle of the region but i have doubt what this is the appropriate way.
i followed the instruction in this video http://www.altium.com/video-creating-custom-pad-shapes
When you design your schematic component, assign Designators to the pins, e.g. A + B or 1 + 2, .... In your PCB Library item (the one that is linked to your schematic symbol) use the Place -> Pad, select "Multi-Layer" as Layer, enter a hole size (.7mm) and a pad size (e.g 1.5x1.5mm) and you're done, name the two pads A + B (same name as in the schematic).
Now when you transfer your schematic design to your PCB, Altium will assign the appropriate nets to your pads.
Here's how you change a pad to SMT single layer:
This is pretty basic stuff. Altium has excellent documentation- you should work through the tutorials.
Best Answer
Altium should recognize the whole thing as one pad total after the part is placed, although they do appear as seperate entities in the footprint editor.
Have you tried running a trace to it, or an ERC? If it shows up with a misconnected net, or floating copper error of some kind then for whatever reason that the region didn't inherit the properties of the pad that was placed on it.
If that happens try re-creating the last pad in that footprint. As long as the pad you place on the region touches that region it should mark the entire region with that designator.