Help for footprint (edge mounted connector)

Question

Hello,

I'm doing my first few boards in Eagle, and so far everything is running perfectly (and will upgrade to the full version now)

On a new board I'm trying to do I have two 6 pin connectors that I would like to mount on the edge of the board (horisontal). I'm having a hard time how to design that as a footprint. There needs to be to cutouts in the board and these should be plated. I have attached a picture of the connecotor and a picture of how it has been done in another product.

Any help out there ? This is the last thing I need to resolve before my board is being sent (I'm using PCB-POOL)

Thanks for any help (would even consider paying you for a ready made footprint that would do this if reasonable..)

dukepro · Answer

Carsten, The attached isn't exactly what you want, but it should serve as a guide on how to design an edge connector. It's a 50-pin card edge connector with three different configurations - left end of board edge, right end of board edge, and middle of board edge. As Richard mentioned, you will have to work with your board house to specify the gold plating. Note that zero-width wires are placed in the Dimension layer to specify the cutout. What's NOT in the design is a polygon or rectangle that specifies the top and bottom finish. Eagle has tFinish and bFinish layers to specify exactly this. You can add sections to your CAM job to produce gerber files for these two layers, then name the output files AuTop.gbr and AuBot.gbr. That and a note in the README file should make it pretty obvious to the board house which pads should be gold plated. Argh!!! I had to zip the file to get it to post - it's just a hair over 50k unzipped. HTH, - Chuck On 01/20/2014 11:00 AM, Carsten Groen wrote: Hello, I'm doing my first few boards in Eagle, and so far everything is running perfectly (and will upgrade to the full version now) On a new board I'm trying to do I have two 6 pin connectors that I would like to mount on the edge of the board (horisontal). I'm having a hard time how to design that as a footprint. There needs to be to cutouts in the board and these should be plated. I have attached a picture of the connecotor and a picture of how it has been done in another product. Any help out there ? This is the last thing I need to resolve before my board is being sent (I'm using PCB-POOL) Thanks for any help (would even consider paying you for a ready made footprint that would do this if reasonable..) -- To view any images and attachments in this post, visit: http://www.element14.com/community/message/101512 
 Attachments: card-edge.lbr.zip