Austin, I have to ask the question.. What size anti-pad are you using for your vias ? (Hole size + ?) In one of your previous responses you indicated that you will still have a plane reference when routing thru the suppressed pad area so I wanted to know how you are accomplishing this. Thanks, Mike BTW: I think it would be a cool option to suppress the via pads so you are able to route more traces thru between vias but I don't know if I would really use it. "Austin Franklin" <austin 03/31/2005 03:00 PM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Removing unused pad rings on inner layers DURING design... Hi Jim, > Do you really need a 24 mil via? I've routed several 1mm on a standard > 63 mil thick board and use 19 mil via pads with a 6 mil finished drill. With a 10 mil drill, yes. This is the technology that has to be used, and again, it will work, so there should be no need to go to another more expensive technology just to work around an issue that the tool should be able to better handle. Regards, Austin ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------