Frank: Here's a screwy screw hole. Save it to your footprints library, edit it, etc. The arc is in silkscreen, so as to show you how big a keep out area you'll need for the screw head + whatever wiggle room it needs to keep your circuits and mounting hardware isolated.
The sizes are set as per Stuart's file: PDF form (land_patterns_20050129.pdf) at: http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/ Phil Element[0x0 "term-pcbhole-150milhole-375milkeepout" "" "" 200000 120000 70897 -10000 0 100 0x0] ( Pin[0 0 17000 20600 17000 15000 "term-pcbmount" "2" 0x01] ElementArc[0 0 18800 18800 0 360 1000] ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Stuart, > Thanks for your fast response. > > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:05 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > > I request some pointers please. My board requires 4 holes to mount it > > > onto the case box. How do I specify the holes? Do I put them in gschem, > > > or just pcb? > > > > If the holes are electrically attached to anything (e.g. chassis GND > > attached to board GND at some point), then put them in the > > schematic. > What is the part name called and in which library do I find it? > > > Then re-netlist and forward annotate them into the .pcb > > file. You will need to create a footprint for them. > Are there none at all pre-made that I can use? > > > Don't forget to > > read the new netlist into PCB. > > > > If the holes aren't electrically connected to anything, then just draw > > them directly into PCB. Do this by placing a via. > > > > > How can I specify the size? > > > > Place the holes at your desired location using PCB. Then chnage the > > hole size. The best way to do this is using a text editor. > > > > Stuart > Thanks, > Frank > --------------------------------------- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email & vCards / \ http://arc.pasp.de/
