Yeah, kapton tape right on top of the vias and lay the pins down on top of that. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Great idea and very easy to do. Thanks guys!
And yeah, I'll *definitely* be checking footprints next time. Luckily that was the only footprint that was off out of 90+ or so components and 6 different IC's. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Peter TB Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 20:51:25 Anthony Shanks wrote: >> Boards came back yesterday and one of my footprints don't exactly >> match the vendor. I used gEDA's 24-pin SSOP format for this IC as the >> vendor said it was a 24 pin SSOP. I am not blaming gEDA as I should of >> checked before the boards went out. I did check for the footprints I >> made myself but did not check gEDA's IC footprints. > > The best lessons are the ones you learn the hard way. :-P > >> Also, is there anyway to salvage this? > > - Put kapton tape down under where row of "floating" pins will sit > - Place part and solder row which fits to pads > - Get lots of fiddly bits of "bodge wire" and connect pins to pads. > > Good luck! ;-) > > Peter > > -- > Peter Brett <[email protected]> > Remote Sensing Research Group > Surrey Space Centre > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
