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e14 Contributor over 15 years ago

I am creating a Vector Board style PCB and want groups of 3 pads interconnected identically on the top layer and bottom layer. Once I connect the airwires on one layer, it is impossible to connect the pads on the other wire - because the airwires are "used up".
I have tried to define a wirepad like this, but keep getting overlap errors or even a message that said "pad abuse"! What to do? Thx in advance.
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Richard_H over 15 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Hi,

quick solution is to draw a WIRE in layers 1 and 16 from pad to pad and NAME the wire the same as the signal name is. So will not get DRC errors.
The proper solution would be to use three pins in the schematic and connect them all to the same net. So you would get airwires connecting all the pads in the board.

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Richard
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e14 Contributor over 15 years ago in reply to Richard_H

Hi!
I´m creating a D2PAK diode in the library editor, and since there are three pads but only two pins in the symbol, I need to connect one pin to two pads, but cant understand howto...any idea?
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Richard_H over 15 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Hi,

EAGLE expects a 1 to 1 connection. One pin can be connected exactly with one pad. To have a proper definition you have to use three pins ion the schematic. You could for example use two short pins so that it look like one long pin and connect both to the net. Sorry there is curently no other solution available.

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Richard_H over 15 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Hi,

EAGLE expects a 1 to 1 connection. One pin can be connected exactly with one pad. To have a proper definition you have to use three pins ion the schematic. You could for example use two short pins so that it look like one long pin and connect both to the net. Sorry there is curently no other solution available.

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