Been there, done that, had the error flagged by PCB manufacturer and spent
many a happy hour trying to locate the non-plated pad.
I located it by exporting all the pads to Spread sheet and scanning down the
"plated" column. Note the XY co-ordinates and jump to location on PCB. In my
case it was one or two pads on one of my library footprints was in error.
The other way (as explained by people who use Protel PCB as a living) is use
global select to select all pads with 0mil hole and not plated and then jump
to selection. It appears, as they knew the solution instantly, that this
non-plated pad "error" occurs quite often.
Ian Middleton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 13 August 2001 22:22
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] SV: SV: Unplated SMD-pads??
>
>
> I've seen this happen with both Multilayer and top only
> SMD...just happened
> to me yesterday...
>
> Best way to find it is to look at the report (menu - Reports - Board
> Information - then generate the report by setting to all). You'll see a
> heading for non-plated hole sizes like so:
>
>
> Non-Plated Hole Size Pads Vias
> ----------------------------------------
> 0mil (0mm) 4 0
> 26mil (0.6604mm) 2 0
> 28mil (0.7112mm) 1 0
> 42mil (1.0668mm) 1 0
> 80mil (2.032mm) 2 0
> 94mil (2.3876mm) 5 0
> 96mil (2.4384mm) 6 0
> 104mil (2.6416mm) 2 0
> 110mil (2.794mm) 8 0
> 124mil (3.1496mm) 3 0
> 125mil (3.175mm) 1 0
> 128mil (3.2512mm) 2 0
> 157mil (3.9878mm) 2 0
> ----------------------------------------
> Total 39 0
>
>
> Yours will have different data of course.
>
> It happened to me with a PADS generated footprint (yea the 901
> pin BGA I've
> posted about before) that I grabbed from a PADS ASCII import.
>
>
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