Re: gEDA-user: PCB minimum plated hole

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Who is Vendor? Is PCB fabhouse meant? Or the designer?

Yes, the fab house.

> If I am designed a board that is meant to be portable (i. e. anyone
> in the world can send it to his local fabhouse) what should I load
> into vendor manufacturing rules?

That's a tricky one.  I would say, do a survey of fab houses and find
the most strict set of drills and stick to those.  Many fab houses
don't limit the drill sizes; they have a full rack.  The ones that do
limit might use the same limited set.  Design for the maximum
line/space rules.  The end user may have to let the fab round the hole
size up to their drill set even so.