0.1" pin header holes missing

Am 07.08.2017 um 19:47 schrieb Souvik Pal:

Hi All,

 

 

I am fairly new to eagle. I am hoping to get some advise on a beginners problem that I am facing.

I am designing a board which should just contain a bunch of holes for 0.1" breakway header pins to be connected and traces to connect different terminals.

When I try to visualize my gerber files, they appear to be solid pads, with no holes.

 

For example  a part of board looks like this:

 

 

But when I look at the gerber files (GTL), through circuitpeople.com, I see this:

 

Clearly, there are no holes in here, it looks like they are all just pads!!

Do I have to manually put holes in each pad?

 

No, this is correct.  The copper plating MUST be solid (filled).  So

that in the next step the drill will touch this copper all around and

the through metallization of the hole will connect to it.  A hole in the

copper would disturb drilling and metallization.

Only if you want to etch and manually drill a PCB in the old-fashioned

way yourself, then you want small holes in the copper of the pads to

guide your manual drilling.  There are special ULPs for this.

The print function does show the holes in pads, but this is for

documentation/viewing only.  For manufacturing, in the gerber files,

they must be filled.

BTW, many PCB manufacturers take and prefer Eagle BRD files, so there is

no need to generate Gerber files at all.

HTH, Hans

Am 07.08.2017 um 19:47 schrieb Souvik Pal:

Hi All,

 

 

I am fairly new to eagle. I am hoping to get some advise on a beginners problem that I am facing.

I am designing a board which should just contain a bunch of holes for 0.1" breakway header pins to be connected and traces to connect different terminals.

When I try to visualize my gerber files, they appear to be solid pads, with no holes.

 

For example  a part of board looks like this:

 

 

But when I look at the gerber files (GTL), through circuitpeople.com, I see this:

 

Clearly, there are no holes in here, it looks like they are all just pads!!

Do I have to manually put holes in each pad?

 

No, this is correct.  The copper plating MUST be solid (filled).  So

that in the next step the drill will touch this copper all around and

the through metallization of the hole will connect to it.  A hole in the

copper would disturb drilling and metallization.

Only if you want to etch and manually drill a PCB in the old-fashioned

way yourself, then you want small holes in the copper of the pads to

guide your manual drilling.  There are special ULPs for this.

The print function does show the holes in pads, but this is for

documentation/viewing only.  For manufacturing, in the gerber files,

they must be filled.

BTW, many PCB manufacturers take and prefer Eagle BRD files, so there is

no need to generate Gerber files at all.

HTH, Hans