Changing holes not PAD in Protel 2004

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Changing holes not PAD in Protel 2004

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27 Jul 05 23:41

Could someone help me....Im trying to change the hole shape which is set as default as a circle. I want to change the hole shape to a rectangle. I am not talking about the pad shape but the hole shape.....the hole shape is what the manufacturers drill. I am using Protel 2004 could someone help me please.

Thankyou
Cade

uWaveFDL (Electrical) · Answer 1 · 2005-07-28 00:03:43

Try using arc's connected by tracks.
Then change the 4 components of the slot to "Keep out" layer and line width to zero.

thunderandlightning (Electrical) · Answer 2 · 2005-07-28 00:22:22

Thankyou for that....yeah i have tried that and it didn't work.....i tried looking at the pads categorie but there was nothing related either :-(

uWaveFDL (Electrical) · Answer 3 · 2005-07-28 01:25:26

I'll see what method our LPKF guy uses.
We regularly cut slots in test fixture components we make from board material.
I'll try to get back tomorrow and post the method.

CarlPugh (Electrical) · Answer 4 · 2005-07-28 11:51:34

?Can the PCB manufacture drill a square hole?

SteveSmith (Mechanical) · Answer 5 · 2005-07-28 18:07:47

No CAD package that I know of can do anything but round holes. Slots and notches need to be documented in the fabrication drawing. By the way there is an Altium: Protel forum here that you may want to use in the future.

Steve Smith, C.I.D.
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
www.stacoenergy.com

Comcokid (Electrical) · Answer 6 · 2005-07-29 11:12:00

In all the CAD packages I worked with, including Protel, pads had round holes. Slots or other non-drilled items had to be handled through other means and documented as to size/location by other means - usually by placing text and diagrams on the drill drawing layer.

Pads have round holes as this kind of object is directly interpreted to create the drill file output from a CAD package.

Maybe some of the higher end$$$ packages have the ability to generate routing/milling output, but I don't know if there is even a industry standard format to use such an output.

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