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Best way to do an odd shaped through-hole pad?

bill.french
bill.french over 9 years ago

I'm new to Eagle, trying to design a device in Eagle, (IRFP4468, a high power mosfet) ... i want the pads like the picture below.  I drew them using polygons on the "pad" layer, around a square pad.

 

How can I specify the connection point?  Right now it wants to connect at the circle, which screws up what I'm trying to accomplish.  (second picture)

 

I'm sure I'm going about this all wrong, but i can't figure out what I should do.  Any pointers?

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    0 rachaelp over 9 years ago

    Hi Bill,

     

    What you are doing is correct but you are right it will put the connection point in the centre of the through hole pad. I'm not sure why this is a problem though. Maybe it might help if you told us what you were trying to achieve that this is causing problems with? We might them be able to offer you an alternative solution.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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    0 rachaelp over 9 years ago

    Hi Bill,

     

    What you are doing is correct but you are right it will put the connection point in the centre of the through hole pad. I'm not sure why this is a problem though. Maybe it might help if you told us what you were trying to achieve that this is causing problems with? We might them be able to offer you an alternative solution.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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    0 bill.french over 9 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    In the second photo, i drew a .25" trace ... it is round on the end, and thus interferes with the pad to the right.  If I coudl set the connection point a little "north" ... that curvature would be buried in the green.

     

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