Hi, Rick Collins írta:
> I think I see where you are headed with this and I don't think it is a > good idea. You want to add vias to act as pads for the jumper > resistors, right? Yes. That may get you pads on the board, but you won't > have an entry in the XYRS file for the jumper! Ok, I understand. The SMD position data doesn't need for my pcb assembler (and not for me, too, when assembling by hand). But I can see now, the main problem is that when manufacturing, there are no objects for these "via-pads" on the cream-mask layer! However it would be useful (as in Eagle) the ability of changing the shape of via. > I would suggest that you first try to lay out the board without > jumpers and see how far you can get. If you are not using fine pitch > parts and can route signals between pins, you should be able to get a > pretty high percentage of nets routed without jumpers. Then adding > jumpers to the schematic should only take one or two iterations. If > your board is crowded or your parts are fine pitch, this won't work so > well. My board will be small with some fine pitch parts, but perhaps not too crowded. > If you really must use vias as pads, you can pick a unique drill size > and then just remove all references to that drill size from the drill > list. This will be "manual" editing of the drill list, but it can be > semi-automated using search features in any editor. Yes, it would be a good way for assembling by hand. Peter
