Hello Heiko. > If you try to make the hole larger than the pad you will get an error. > What I have been using in the past was to have the pad on NO copper layers. > But in the current version it also creates an error.
Yes. I think it would be better to get a warning instead of an error. > Maybe something to put as a suggestion.... Mmmmh. I made some moduls as mounting holes. I just made an ordinary pad WITH annular, named them "hole" and saved them. Then i edited them separatly. You will finde a component "hole": $MODULE hole Po 0 0 0 15 4BFFD155 00000000 ~~ Li hole Sc 00000000 AR Op 0 0 0 T0 0 -2000 600 600 0 120 N V 21 N"hole" T1 0 2000 600 600 0 120 N V 21 N"VAL**" $PAD Sh "1" C 394 394 0 0 0 Dr 394 0 0 At STD N 0030FFFF Ne 0 "" Po 0 0 $EndPAD $EndMODULE hole If you want a hole only with the drill, so change the line with "At STD N 0030FFFF" to "At STD N 01000000" Now the annular is put to the layer "comments". Originally this was a workaround for someone who had problems at production with a still existing annular if he put hole and annular diameter to the same size. But i think, this problem has nothing to do with kicad, but his board manufacturer. With this method, you would be able to edit the reference and the value, but not the hole component as pad with diameter and so on. Then you will get the error message. Normally you can put put hole and annular diameter to the same size. It will vanish, and now you could draw a circle or crosshair or combination of both to the silkscreen or comment layer. I suggest to make a set of mounting holes with different sizes, just like you use, as modules, and put them to the board like components. For this purpose, i also made a symbol "mounting_hole" for the schematic. I can put them into the schematic just to be consistent. Then, in CVpcb, i allocate a module "hole_xx-diameter" to every symbol "mounting_hole". Also a way to remember myself not to forget mounting holes at my boards. With best regards: Bernd Wiebus alias dl1eic -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail
