Re: gEDA-user: plated mounting holes

[gene glick <carzrgr8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> Draw a smaller via (the inner layer diameter).
> 
> Set your LINE width to the larger size, draw a line from the via to
> somewhere else.
> 
> Move the "other" end of that new line back to the via, leaving a large
> round copper "line" on top of the via.
> 
> You can do the same thing with an element, and probably should, as
> mounting holes should be treated as elements.  It would have one Pin()
> (for the hole and inner copper) and two Pad()s (for the outer coppers).
> Plus whatever silk you want to identify it.

Great tip, DJ!  Works exactly the way I wanted.

gene


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