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Assign Step Model to user defined Plated through Holes

jatins

Hi

Was wondering if there is a way to assign Step Model to Plated Mounting Holes. I quite often change my mounting holes drill size and pad dimensions around it.

My mounting holes are usually not defined with Step mapping. So when i export it to 3d canvas that mounting hole usually comes

covered with a smd pad which i had to uncheck before exporting 3d file to actually show the hole size.

Is there any way around this? 

  • in reply to steve

    Yes. Mounting hole is shown once i uncheck 3d canvas>Symbols>Respective Mounting Hole. But the problem i experience is that the Copper plating inside the mounting holes is shown thicker than it should be. As a result, the actual drill size of hole is not shown correctly. Can't find anything to control Copper thickness in pad file.

    As an observation, Copper plating thickness is set to 20 percent of hole diameter.  

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