[PCB_FORUM] Re: drill symbols

Actually, I haven't seen any boards with a bunch of .125 plated holes on
them.

 

Jim S. Wages / SR. PCB Layout Designer:  

Cary, NC - (919) 466-1596

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It was my understanding that the width and height is the dimension of
the text of the character

rather than the size of the hole which is defined on the layer tab.

 

Imagine a  board with a lot of plated thru .125 holes with  .125 drill
characters!

 

Shirley in Oregon

 

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Let me re-word the 2nd paragraph.

This way the hole "figure" and the drill "size"are always the same, Now
you
have one to one correspondence and one would never run out
of figure combinations. 



Dave Seymour wrote:



Gary,

Set the figure as a circle that is the same size as the drill.

Drill Dia = .062
Figure = .062
Character = P ( P= Plated, N = Non-Plated)
width = .062
height = .062

This way the hole and the drill are always the same, Now you
have one to one correspondence and one would never run out
of figure combinations. 

Side note: This is how in the old days I would get the drill size to
display,
before the display button was added.

In this electronic age, each of the vendors, techs, engineers I work
with has a copy
of the Allegro viewer or a CAM tool. If anyone wants to "really" know
the
diameter, then they hit the "information" button. 

Hope this helps.
Dave


Gary MacIndoe wrote:



Hey all,

The padstacks in our library have a unique drill symbol for each drill
size (either a "Figure", a "Character" or

a combination of the two).

This is a "mature" library, and I'm starting to run out of symbols with
all of the odd drill sizes I'm adding lately.

What do you do when all of the combinations are used up?  Anybody else
have this problem?

Thanks for a clue!

Gary E. MacIndoe

PCB Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices

Longmont, Colorado





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