I've been spending the better part of today wasting tons of my company's
money trying to save a buck - it's not making much sense for this
one-time, but I am also hoping this investment will increase my
understanding and either find me a more cost-effective board house or
give me the ability to better test my boards against the various houses
to see who is cheaper in each case.
On to the real problem at hand. I've perused the board and found a few
complaints about the DRC's insistence on CHANGING restrings (annular
ring - as it SHOULD be called because I never stringed anything in the
first place in order to need to REstring it!). Apparently the DRC even
does this if you have NOT set your pads in your libraries to AUTO. Even
more dumber. All this being really bad, to add insult to injury I
really do not CARE what percentage of annular ring I have aorund my
pads, every board house I've look at simply cares about the differential
diameter. It wouldn't matter to them if I had a via the diameter of a
human hair or one the size of the Himalayans - they want one thing: a
specified amount of diameter LARGER than the drill. It's not a
percentage, its a hard and fast number. Why can't EAGLE accept a
percentage, a calculation, or a hard-and-fast value??
Suggestion for change?!
-Jon
