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 Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 06:03 AM |
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Joined: Jul 21, 2005
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| I googled it and came up empty, how do you make plated slots in eagle? |
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Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 07:57 AM |
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Joined: Jun 19, 2002
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Location: SF Bay area
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You put a slot on the "route before plating" layer (which you must create yourself), produce a separate gerber for that layer and negotiate with your PCB manufacturer so that in fact, that layer is routed before plating occurs.
Professional PCBs are not processed in quite the order that a hobbyist would do things. In particular, holes are drilled very early, which is what enables them to be plated relatively easily (during plating, you have one single conductive piece, comprising both sides of the PCB and the through-hole-activation magic.) Understanding this is relatively key to figuring out when you actually have to talk to your pcb vendor. (One of the sites used to have a very nice summary, but I can't find it anymore...) |
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Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 01:34 PM |
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What you don't want to do is have a very thin slot as this slot has to be routed as opposed to drilled.
Thin routers (routing) gets exponentially more expensive the thinner you go. If you can get away with it, specify 1mm width.... |
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