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How is default VIA drill size set?

e14 Contributor

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re: How is default VIA drill size set?

Tue 6/15/2010 4:52 pm

 

The default VIA drill size appears to be drill #2 in "options" menu, "set",

"drill" tab, .023622 (apparently a rounded .6 mm). Which, sadly, is

smaller than the default DRC "sizes" tab, "minimum drill". (Changing the

option in the "drill tab" doesn't seem to change the VIA drill size.)

 

Where in Eagle is the default VIA drill size set?

 

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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Halo,

    I would like to setup the default via parameter. How could this be accomplished?

     

    Regards, Oliver S.

    ISLE-Gmbh, Ilmenau.

     

    En alemán:

    Wie stellt man die Standard VIA Parameter ein?

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    re: Set default VIA drill size

    Wed 6/16/2010 3:33 pm

     

    So my last discoveries appear to be the stuff of dreams, a tale told by an

    idiot! I think it's something like whatever the CHANGE command did last, or

    maybe on Tuesday, is the default. ... For a little while. ... Or

    something....

     

    -- many regrets

     

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    re: Set default VIA drill size with command-line?

    Wed 6/16/2010 1:13 pm

     

    So I've spent the usual 2 days, and the following is what I think I know.

     

    MAKING IT SO YOUR VIAS DON'T GENERATE DRC ERRORS

     

    1. Place a single VIA in the board editor (type in command-line "via",

    Enter, and click somewhere; then click the stop sign). If you then do a

    DRC, it will complain about it. If it doesn't complain, you have somehow

    magically already fixed it, and you are a superior person!

     

    2. Then, TYPE in the COMMAND-LINE -- there's probably some other way but I

    don't know it -- "change drill .024 in". And click the VIA. (Substitute

    whatever drill size you might desire for ".024 in".)

     

    3. Subsequently, barring sudden barometric changes and/or phase-of-moon

    catastrophes, all your VIAs will have a drill size of .024" instead of

    023622". This appears to be true of the current project; when I start a

    new project, I get back the .023622" VIA drill size, which violates the

    default .024" DRC minimum VIA drill size rule.

     

    If you were so foolish, as I was, to have existing VIAs without this

    blessing of mumbo-jumbo, I think you can do something like

     

    (A.) Still in the board editor, click layers, click "None", and then click

    the VIAs layer # 18, so only it will show, and click OK. That way you can

    see, and more importantly, select and change, existing VIAs. It seems

    impossible to do it any other way.

     

    (B.) Do step #2 above.

     

    (C.) Use the group icon to select all your vias, right-click on it, and

    there might be a "change group" among the choices, and that might do that.

     

    (D.) Afterwards, you might want to get the other layers back;

    exiting/reentering Eagle might work....

     

    -- good luck!

     

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