Altium Designer Documentation

Working with the Un-Connected Pin Design Rule on a PCB in Altium Designer

Created: March 21, 2017 | Updated: September 26, 2019
Now reading version 20.2. For the latest, read: Electrical - Un-Connected Pin for version 21
Applies to Altium Designer versions: 18.0, 18.1, 19.0, 19.1, 20.0, 20.1 and 20.2

Rule category: Electrical

Rule classification: Unary

Summary

This rule detects pins that have no net assigned and no connecting tracks.

All design rules are created and managed within the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor dialog. For a high-level view of working with the design rules system, see Defining, Scoping & Managing PCB Design Rules.

Constraints

None

How Duplicate Rule Contentions are Resolved

All rules are resolved by the priority setting. The system goes through the rules from highest to lowest priority and picks the first one whose scope expression matches the object(s) being checked.

Rule Application

Online DRC and Batch DRC.

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