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Subject: CadSoft Eagle pads question

From: "alan00463" <alan00463@...>
Date: 2008-07-10

Looked through the freeware Eagle 4.16's wirepads library.
Its thirteen thru-hole pads and four SMD pads are more than
adequate for what I'm doing.

However, in selecting pads for my thru-hole board, I got a couple
questions:

(1) The numbers......does anybody know what the numbers
in the pads library mean? For example, the smallest thru-
hole pad is marked 1,6/0,8 and the largest thru-hole pad
is marked 3,81/1,4

(2) When I add a pad, do I only add it to the board file, or is it
necessary to also add a corresponding entity to the schematic?

Regards,
Alan