gEDA-user: Re: PCB - rectangular holes

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:51:43 -0500, KURT PETERS wrote:

> I didn't see any notes about how to make rectangular instead of round
> holes. Is there an easy way to do this? 

Draw the outline of the hole with lines in a layer called lineout. Tell 
the fab house about it in a README file. 


> huge round holes when a nice small rectangle would have worked nicely. 
> Is this something that's hard for board houses to make?

They can easily mill arbitrary paths through the pcb, including the edges 
of a rectangle hole. The corners of the rectangle will be a bit rounded, 
of course. Most fabs charge extra for additional milling.

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