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From: "alan00463" <alan00463@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] CadSoft Eagle pads question


> 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

That is similar to how I name my pads, the smaller number is the hole size
and the larger on is the pad diameter (in mm, of course).

I use Round (1.4, 3.8), for instance, with the hole size first, for round
pads. Rect (1.0 x 2.0) for rectangular pads (wdith x length), and so on.

Leon
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