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Offline gregallenwarnerTopic starter

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Weird pad resizing in Eagle
« on: February 12, 2015, 08:31:48 pm »
I've got a problem in Eagle. (Besides using Eagle itself as the problem!)  |O

I made a part for a USB micro B socket by following the dimensions in a Hirose datasheet. The shielding pads and TH anchors are supposed to be 1.9mm tall, according to the dimensional drawing in the datasheet. So I created SMD pads of 1.8 x 1.9 and TH pads with diameter 1.9mm. In the library footprint view, everything looks ok. All the pads are the same height.

Soon as I import my part into a schematic and go to place the part on the PCB, things look different. The TH pads are a bit bigger than the SMD pads. I tried creating a via directly in the PCB using the same parameters as the TH pads in the library part, just as a sanity check, and it seems like the TH pads match on the PCB, yet to me, I could swear the TH pads look like they've been enlarged on the PCB.

Does anybody know what's going on here, or what's causing this issue? It's a problem because the extra width of the TH pads violates the copper-to-board-edge clearance of 15mils in my DRC file. If it truly matched what I created in my library file, it would not be violating this measurement.

I've attached renderings of the part in the library view, as well as on the PCB. Thanks.
 

Offline Christopher

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Re: Weird pad resizing in Eagle
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2015, 08:39:21 pm »
Have a look at restring(sp?) in the DRC. This has been a problem for me in the past when I wanted really tiny pad sizes
 

Offline gregallenwarnerTopic starter

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Re: Weird pad resizing in Eagle
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2015, 08:52:04 pm »
I've attached a screenshot of my restring window. I'm not really sure what most of this means. All I know is the minimum annular ring of my board house is 7mil, and by my calculations, a 1.5mm hole with a 1.9mm diameter pad just meets this requirement. So I don't think the pad should've been resized at all, as it meets the 7mil minimum.
 


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