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  • Hi Richard,

     

    I'm creating a custom library part for a layout I'm doing.  The part has some non-standard shaped pads. I have no problem drawing them with a combination of miter and polygon tools in the Pads layer, and putting tStop and bStop "overlays" around them, and put filled polygons into the Milling layer for oblong holes. The problem is that in order to name my custom pads as signals, it seems to me that I have to put a standard (say circular drilled) pad over top of it. It then covers my meticulously measured and decorated custom holes with it's surounding pad. How do I get the effect that I'm going for, which is simply to leave my custom pads alone and name the signals? I've tried setting the rank of my custom Pads to zero and the "standard" pads to seven, but it still looks like the "standard" pad is "on top of" my custom drilled pad...

  • in reply to vicatcu

    Hi Victor,

     

    you have to use a SMD or  a pad as basis for connecting a signal. I am sorry to have to say that there is no possibility to assign a polygon or rect or circle with a signal name in the package editor.

    We will be more flexible there with the next new EAGLE, but this will last a bit.....

     

    Best regards,
    Richard

  • in reply to Richard_H

    Richard,

     

    So in my library, I could just put an SMT pads inside the perimeter of my custom shapes and Eagle will route to those? I imagine I'll get some DRC errors from this "technique" right?

     

    Victor

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