[sdiy] square pads

[cheater cheater]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 22:53, David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> I ship a 1:1 color photo of an assembled board with my kits. It's a
>> just a few cents when printed in large quantities but it's very
>> helpful for cross-checking parts orientation or resistor colors -
>> especially for those who assemble their kits far from computers and
>> can't simultaneously check the assembly instructions online. Wouldn't
>> work for an extra-large vocoder boards, though :)
>
> I actually provide a collection of various computer graphic images of the
> board layout (complete with connectors, color-coded resistors, diode
> stripes, transistor shapes, chip dimples, cap shapes and values, etc) to
> guide the builder of my boards.  On this graphic, +V is always red, GND is
> always green, and -V is always black.  I don't silkscreen my PCBs, so this
> graphic is all I refer to when stuffing my own boards.  The BOM is also
> graphical: I just copy all the little parts off of the layout graphic and
> line them up next to the BOM table.  This is a major help for organizing the
> parts, as you can actually lay the parts out and see visually whether you've
> forgotten anything.  It's all a bit anal, but I virtually never make a PCB
> stuffing mistake.  This, to me, is much easier than having to read the
> little white writing on the PCB itself.

Oh yes, definitely at build time.

In 30 years, though...