# Dupe pin names in eagle **URL:** \ **Category:** PCB Design\ **Created:** [September 1, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367 "2008-09-01T21:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Chupa](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Chupa)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/1 "2008-09-01T21:25:33Z")
This has been buggin me for a while. When making a custom part in eagle how do you make 2 or more pins with the same name? IE I have a part with 5 GND pins. Instead of doing GND1 GND2 etc. I would like to just name them all GND. ---
**Author:** ![Shifted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Shifted](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Shifted)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/2 "2008-09-02T00:52:42Z")
From the Eagle 5.2 help file: > **Pins with the same Name** > > If it is required to define several pins in a component with the same name, the following procedure can be used: > > For example, suppose that three pins are required for GND. The pins are allocated the names GND@1, GND@2 and GND@3 during the symbol definition. Then only the characters before the “@” sign appear in the schematic. > > It is not possible to add or delete pins in symbols which are already used by a device because this would change the pin/pad allocation defined with the CONNECT command. ---
**Author:** ![Chupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Chupa](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Chupa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/3 "2008-09-02T01:45:46Z")
Thankyou much! The help dosent seem to work in vista :-/ ---
**Author:** ![Chupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Chupa](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Chupa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/4 "2008-09-02T01:49:24Z")
Oh! im using eagle 4.16r2 :-/ no wonder it wasn’t working. ---
**Author:** ![Shifted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Shifted](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Shifted)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/5 "2008-09-02T15:58:48Z")
The 4.16r2 help file says the same thing from what I can see, are you saying the help file doesn’t work, or the pin naming doesn’t work? ---
**Author:** ![Chupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Chupa](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Chupa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/6 "2008-09-02T16:08:55Z")
you cant open the help in vista, but thats expected. Ive tried using @ and $ but the pin names still show up as VCC$1, VCC$2… etc. or VCC@1, VCC@2. So the pin naming doesn’t seem to work as described. ---
**Author:** ![Shifted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Shifted](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Shifted)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/7 "2008-09-02T16:13:40Z")
Does it work in other predefined library parts? Perhaps you can open/edit one of the working parts in another library to verify how to do it… ---
**Author:** ![Chupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Chupa](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Chupa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/8 "2008-09-02T20:58:26Z")
ok! i did just that and it seems that you use the @ but the catch is you must leave one of the pins with the base name with no extension. IE. GND, GND@1, GND@2, etc. Seems to work fine! thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Andrew02E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Andrew02E](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Andrew02E)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/9 "2008-09-03T03:21:46Z")
That may have been changed in later versions of Eagle. I’m using 5.2 right now and I can name pins GND@1, GND@2, etc. without having a pin named GND and it works fine. ---
**Author:** ![Lucien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@Lucien](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Lucien)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/dupe-pin-names-in-eagle/8367/10 "2008-09-04T22:03:32Z")
You can do that in 4.16r2 as well. I use GND@1, GND@2… etc without any pin named just GND and it works fine.