[kicad-users] Problem with pcbnew
Hi, all! I'm going through David Jahshan's tutorial, and ran into a problem which has stopped me cold. After drawing the boundary of a zone on the copper side of the board, which is to be connected to GND per the tutorial, I right-click on the boundary and select Zones-Fill Zone. Pcbnew promptly crashes, with an error dialog which says PCBNEW has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. The build I am using is Windows 20090216-final, and my operating system is Vista Home. Any advice? Thanks! Pete
[kicad-users] Unplated hole in module editor
Hi, Is there a way to make unplated hole in module editor? I have a SMT connector that need two holes for it centering pin. I could place a hole with almost no pad but the inside of the hole will still be plated and I don't like this idea. Any suggestion? Thanks, Bruno
[kicad-users] Re: Unplated hole in module editor
right clock on pad and go to pad edit. uncheck both the coper and component side. Hoping it may solve your problem. Abhijit
Re: [kicad-users] Re: Unplated hole in module editor
Hi, I think the hole wall will be covered with copper anyway, maybe making a short circuit between layers. There are 2 ways: 1. Tell the pcb maker which holes will be not plated. 2. If you send the gerbers to an automatic pcb maker, such as pcbexpress, let them fill the hole and afterwards you can sand it with an abrasive file. And, as Abhijit says, with zero annular rings. Both ways have worked for us. Pedro. right clock on pad and go to pad edit. uncheck both the coper and component side. Hoping it may solve your problem. Abhijit
Re: [kicad-users] Re: Unplated hole in module editor
or make it a smaller hole then run the correct size drill through it afterwards. That will remove any THP. Andy On Tue, 26 May 2009 21:46:26 +0200 Pedro Martin pki...@yahoo.es wrote: Hi, I think the hole wall will be covered with copper anyway, maybe making a short circuit between layers. There are 2 ways: 1. Tell the pcb maker which holes will be not plated. 2. If you send the gerbers to an automatic pcb maker, such as pcbexpress, let them fill the hole and afterwards you can sand it with an abrasive file. And, as Abhijit says, with zero annular rings. Both ways have worked for us. Pedro. right clock on pad and go to pad edit. uncheck both the coper and component side. Hoping it may solve your problem. Abhijit Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
