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Test points and mounting hole library components?

lamabrew

Hi, I'm just starting an eval of Circuitstudio but I seem to be stuck on what I would have thought was a basic need in all designs. I searched the docs/forums and came up empty, apologies in advance if I missed it.

 

I can't find any schematic library components for test points (through hole or SMT pad), nor for mounting holes (with a pin for grounding or just a plain hole, though maybe the latter isn't really a schematic things in the CS worldview?).

 

I found a post that referred to a "Testpad" library but I can't find that.

 

I was hoping to not have to tackle component creation on day 1.

 

Thanks for any pointers/advice.

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    Self followup to my original post. Not sure why I didn't find it before, but while looking through Vault for other parts I came across some mounting holes in:

    Board Templates -> Components -> Board Connectors -> Mechanical

     

    Can't say they result in the correct final thing in a PCB but it has a couple different types so it's a place to start.

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    Self followup to my original post. Not sure why I didn't find it before, but while looking through Vault for other parts I came across some mounting holes in:

    Board Templates -> Components -> Board Connectors -> Mechanical

     

    Can't say they result in the correct final thing in a PCB but it has a couple different types so it's a place to start.

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    Another self followup for any future Googlers. The mounting holes in the Mechanical section of Vault seem to give the PCB DRC heartache, and I didn't feel like adding rules for just those without understanding them better. They also used tiny screw sizes. So for now just made my own mounting hole components.

     

    Quite by accident when searching for fiducial components in the stock libraries I came across some test points. I have no idea why my initial search didn't find them. I have had Vault crash several times this week, as well as sometimes it comes up blank for large parts of it and have to quit out and restart. So maybe that played in the failure to find these before (as well as the painful UI on Vault...I hate to complain but I can only describe it  as inexplicable...)

     

    Here's where to look:

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