I'm making the transition from the handholding of ExpressPCB CAD to the wild and woolly world of KiCad :-) An area where I can see me getting into trouble very easily is with drill sizes since KiCad allows one to enter any drill size. Questions:
* How does one know what the standard drill sizes are? * Is the drill size the drilled hole size or the size of the hole after plating? * if the drilled hole, how much should I allow for plating build-up? I'm doing a lot of work right now with power devices so I need to build footprints for some of the larger devices that aren't in the library. I have the specs on what pad and hole sizes I used with ExpressPCB but I don't know how to translate the Express hole size (which I think is the finished size) to drill sizes. Thanks, John -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77
