D shaped hole

[dermeister]

I want to mount some connectors which are meant to be panel mounted onto my PCB. They require D shaped drill holes as shown in the attachment. Is there any way to make a hole shaped like this in Altium?

[dermeister]

I should also mention that this hole should have a pad and ideally should be plated.

[tesla500]

I wouldn't recommend making this hole have the D shape. You want the torque from tightening the nut to be transferred directly to the case, rather than the PCB. I would only make the case hole be a D shape. If you still want a D shaped hole, you could draw the hole shape with arcs and lines on your mechanical layer and put a note for the manufacturer to cut out and plate this hole

[T3sl4co1l]

Is there an alignment tab on the side?

I think I'd be surprised if PTH is actually necessary.  For example, you could simply expose copper around the perimeter, which contacts the face of the component and hardware.  It's not like you'll obtain any benefit from the plated wall; you're unlikely to get consistent contact there.  And not that you need much contact anyway; you probably just need something touching it, to ground it or whatever?

But anyway, PTH or not, it's usually easily done.  Not sure how I'd draw the D shape as a pad object, but a NPTH route is easily made like that.

Tim