Slotted Pads

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I could not find any information on whether BacthPCB service supports slotted pads. Is this supported? If so do you just supply a readme file indicating which pads are slotted?

I noticed my drill file just shows two drills at each end of the slot but nothing about routing between them so I assume this has to be described in a readme file.

Thanks

Shawn

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Shawn,

I’m not totally certain, but I believe the FAW states there is no internal routing of boards by Batch PCB.

But I’ll read again.

James L

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slammers:
I could not find any information on whether BacthPCB service supports slotted pads. Is this supported? If so do you just supply a readme file indicating which pads are slotted?

Greetings Shawn,

I’ve done one board through BatchPCB with slots. I had my

fingers crossed, as I didn’t request the slots beyond the

way I built the part’s footprint in EAGLE.

I did it by filling the required slot with overlapping drills.

This creates multiple DRC errors in EAGLE. The finished

board had a nicely formed slot with plating on internal

walls. The part is a DC Power Jack that has three blade

contacts for PCB insertion. Ironically, after this effort I

found a version of the same part with round pins…

I’ve seen PCB board houses object to overlapping drills.

Comments Welcome!

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I would expect that they would not allow overlapping drills. That would probably cause their bits to break unless it was a large diameter hole. Slots really need to be routed.

I got an email back from BatchPCB saying that slots are not supported.

Shawn

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slammers:
Slots really need to be routed.

I got an email back from BatchPCB saying that slots are not supported.

Shawn,

Then don’t use BatchPCB…

Comments Welcome!

Peter

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I’ve had luck with them doing overlapping drill hits for me as well… It ended up plated, but it was easy to peel the plating out if you wanted.

chris