What link?In general, rectangular openings are not well received by the PWB maker. If they are large enough (somewhere in the range of 0.1 or 0.2 inches wide or more) they can be routed, but that often costs a bit more. A small rectangular pin is typically accommodated by notching the edge of the board, but if you want it in the middle, that would be a long notch.
Oh, wait, you mean electrical connection pins! I was thinking of an alignment pin. I had this exact problem and I just used round holes large enough to push the pins through. In fact, I fudged the sizes a bit so I didn't have lots of different drills. My power connector (may be similar to yours) used five rectangular electrical pins and one alignment pin. The round holes seemed to work just fine. CUI jack barrel 5.5x2.1 mm PJ-051AH
Is this what you are talking about? Rick At 06:44 PM 9/29/2010, you wrote:
Hi, im designing something using a 3.5mm audio jack that is space confined, i need to use a jack that mounts in the middle of the circuit board. unfortunatly i cant figure out how to make the cutout in the footprint or the rectangular(with circular ends) pins. the link is a picture of the footprint. thanks, dave _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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