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Parts for screw holes #266
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Good point. I initially though to cover this with the hole padstacks placed by "place hole" but lateron came to the same conclusions as you did. So I definitely think there's value in having parts for them. There's no need for specific symbols, unit and entity as all holes are identical from an electrical view. So we'd need a generic unit/symbol/entity and a package/part for each hole. Make sure to set the skip Pick&Place and skip BOM flags on the parts. |
Would it be easier to have the place hole dialog have a combo box to pre-fill standard sizes? |
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 12:05:00PM -0800, Lukas K. wrote:
There's no need for specific symbols, unit and entity as all holes are
identical from an electrical view. So we'd need a generic
unit/symbol/entity and a package/part for each hole. Make sure to set
the skip Pick&Place and skip BOM flags on the parts.
That's exactly the approach I took when I made a few test parts
yesterday. Thanks for the tip about the flag settings.
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 12:40:03PM -0800, frmdstryr wrote:
Would it be easier to have the place hole dialog have a combo box to
pre-fill standard sizes?
That's a possibility, but I don't see support for silkscreen layers on
padstacks currently. And the software would need to include tables of
standard hole sizes. I think that sort of data is best kept in the
pool, but that's a decision for the developers.
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I've created example parts for M3, M4, and M5 screw holes. They're available on the A few comments about the packages:
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Just point me to the branch name. Other than that, a WIP/draft pull request works as well. |
AFAICT, the only option for placing holes in a board are the
* Hole
padstacks in the pool (via theplace hole
tool). Parts for a variety of screw holes would be handy: no need to look up the correct clearance hole size for a given thread; handy keep-out markings on the silkscreen; etc. Of course, it also means creating symbols, entities, packages and parts for each thread, and placing a symbol for each desired hole on the schematic.Is there another reason such parts don't exist, other than "not a priority"? I'd be happy to take it on.
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