Re: gEDA-user: plated mounting holes

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 06:45 -0400, Ethan Swint wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 05:58 AM, gene glick wrote:
> > How can I make a mounting hole that does:
> > 1. top/bottom side plated round pad, e.g. .250"
> > 2. connected from top to bottom with a plated hole
> > 3. inner layer clearance is just the normal clearance around the hole,
> > say .010"
> >
> >    
> Presently, PCB can't do different pads on different layers.  I can think 
> of two ways to do this:
> 1) Make a via with no pad, then make a solid thermal to a polygon which 
> approximates a circle on top and both.  Finally, an arc trace can cover 
> over the jagged edges.

The polygon would get covered by mask, so that is no good.

> 2) Make an element with two rounded pads, same location, but one with 
> the flag "onsolder".  Then put a pin through that has zero (or minimal) pad.

That is the only way I can think of unfortunately.

Best regards,

Peter C.




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