--- In [email protected], "Thomas Westerhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to insert a 3mm drill hole in my board. How can I do this? > > -- > Thomas Westerhoff > Friedensstrasse 101 > 99334 Eischleben > > Homepage: http://www.astrohome.info > http://www.sternwarte-kirchheim.de >
What I do is that I make a module with just a circle in the edge layer. In the schematics I include the module and it shows as just as a 3 mm circle in the edge layer. The advantage of this is that you don't get a plated hole in the pcb. To my knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong) pcbnew can't handle unplated holes, so this is a workaround for this missing feature also. The responsibility to make the hole now lies in the hands of the pcb manufacturer. Since the 3 mm hole is not included in the drill file, the manufacturer has to included it in the last production phase together with the rest of the edges, but this has never been a problem for me. // Magnus
