[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I was wondering is it possible to have oblong visa instead of just round >> visa? They would be especially better when making heat transfer boards >> and hand soldering. > > TJ > > You can make this as a footprint, but not as a native PCB via. To do it, > you'd add a pin (the via), an SMT pad with rounded corners of the size you > want, and set the mask clearance so that your vias will still get masked > over. It should work. This would be a footprint, not a via, though.
Just want to remind TJ that if you do a pin+pad in a footprint to get the oblong bad, it kills the thermal tool, since it won't thermal a pad. You have to turn off "new line clears poly" and draw the thermal yourself. For some reason, this surprised me. I had been doing SMT boards and happily drawing thermals by hand, and then made some through-hole boards, and happily used the thermal tool. Then I made some footprints with pad+pin stacks, and was confused when the thermal tool refused to work. It should not have been a surprise, I guess it was an under-caffeinated day. :) I'm working on a design for the local robot club where I want to make the board as "newbie friendly" as possible in every way. This includes making it approachable to those that may be timid about soldering. So I made easy-solder footprints by putting a whonking-big oblong pad on the solder side of the footprint, and left the normal annulus on the component side. This kills less routing capacity on the component side. -dave _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
