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Countersink Holes and Drill File

I am working on a design that requires plated counter sunk holes in it. The holes I want counter sunk show in the drill legend, how do I incorporate that information into the drill file so the board house that makes my PCB knows they are counter sunk holes?

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steve over 5 years ago

There is a checkbox on the NC Drill form to include counterdrill (countersink/counterbore). If this is enabled a jobname-cd-TOP.drl file is generated as well as the usual drill files.
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PDIENG over 5 years ago in reply to steve

Hi thanks for your response. I have tried the following but it does not create the above mentioned file.
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steve over 5 years ago in reply to PDIENG

What exact version are you using from Help - About? If it's not 17.2-2016 S064 or 17.4-2019-S004 log into support.cadence.com or use Download Manager and get the latest hotfix then try again. You also need to ensure that the holes are enabled for countersink via Padstack Editor.
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PDIENG over 5 years ago in reply to steve

Updating to the latest version did the trick. Now the software is creating the new file "MyBoard-cd-TOP.drl" with the countersink drill information. Thanks...
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PDIENG over 5 years ago in reply to steve

Updating to the latest version did the trick. Now the software is creating the new file "MyBoard-cd-TOP.drl" with the countersink drill information. Thanks...
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