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On 07/10/2018 05:06 PM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>   In the
> schematic, I use a standard resistor, which has two pins, 1 and 2.  The
> DPAK PCB footprint has pin 3, which is what gave me trouble.


I say, "There is no on-the-fly way to do that in the GUI."  [John folds arms resolutely]

"It's handled like DJ said:"

"treat the exposed pad like any other pin/pad, give it a
pinnumber (make one up) and expose it in the schematic symbol."

Then connect in gschem and output a new netlist, or import from gschem.

And now Stephan comes up with this!

"On 07/10/2018 05:33 PM, Stephan Böttcher wrote:
 > The footprint has three pins, the schematic symbol only two.  Add a net=
 > attribute to the symbol instance to tell where the third pin shall
 > connect to
 >
 >    net=GND:3"

Sounds like what you were wanting.