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Device with no package?

autodeskguest

Can someone direct me to the manual section that describes how to create

a device with no package?  I am working on an rf design that has a pc

track antenna.  I need to show the antenna on the schematic (connected

to a balun).

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John Bachman, W1JGB

AnaTek Corporation

 

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  • I was thinking of putting the antenna copper pattern as the footprint,

    but if you just have a sort of sham footprint that enables you to get a

    pad on the board, then yeah, you can draw a poly and name it to the net.

    In EAGLE, polygons always fill with copper afaik. The trick is that they

    must be named to the netname they connect to.

     

    If you were to draw a polygon in the footprint itself, I believe you

    will get a DRC error, it's one of the things that's annoying about

    EAGLE. But you know, as long as the Gerber's correct, it doesn't matter.

    If you could make the antenna pattern out of pads, it wouldn't complain.

     

     

     

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  • I was thinking of putting the antenna copper pattern as the footprint,

    but if you just have a sort of sham footprint that enables you to get a

    pad on the board, then yeah, you can draw a poly and name it to the net.

    In EAGLE, polygons always fill with copper afaik. The trick is that they

    must be named to the netname they connect to.

     

    If you were to draw a polygon in the footprint itself, I believe you

    will get a DRC error, it's one of the things that's annoying about

    EAGLE. But you know, as long as the Gerber's correct, it doesn't matter.

    If you could make the antenna pattern out of pads, it wouldn't complain.

     

     

     

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