thanks to all who posted on this. when i had tried this before, i had set up multiple pads on the top and then tried to group move them to the bottom. i'm sure there is a way to do this, but with a minimum of messing with it, i couldn't get it to work. HOWEVER, i found that individually i could easily move each pad to the bottom and i believe i've got my connector footprint made.
thanks again, miker -----Original Message----- From: Jon Elson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:50 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] dual-sided connector footprint ?? Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: > hello, > > i just finished a board that had an connector with little smt-type > feet, some that contacted with the top, some that contacted with > the bottom of the board. i played with getting a footprint with top > and bottom pads, but it didn't seem to want to cooperate, so i > ended up hacking it and splitting the connector into two separate > connectors in the schematic and assigning separate footprints to > them and merely displacing the bottom one to the bottom side on > the pcb itself. > > i've now got another board to do with the same type of connector, > only smaller, and i'd like to footprint the thing properly so that it > is only one connector and has top and bottom surface pads. > > is this possible? could someone give me a hint on how to do it. I'd look in the library for card edge connectors. These have essentially the same sort of pad layout as you are talking about. See how those are done. The one problem is that these don't really have a physical presence on the board, but the pads are there. Side of the board doesn't make as much sense as for a physical component, bu it will swap the even and odd pads if you flip the part. Jon * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
