Create Thru Pin with BEGIN LAYER/END LAYER names using SKILL

In contrast to the Padstack Editor, it appears that utilising the "make_axlPadstackPad" function in SKILL does not directly enable the usage of "BEGIN LAYER" and "END LAYER" names for Thru Pins. As an alternative, you may merely define the "TOP" and "BOTTOM" layers.

When used on the same board, padstacks with various layer names could result in problems. During the production or design verification procedures, it could result in irregularities or unanticipated behaviour.

You may need to consider different strategies to preserve consistency between manually made padstacks and script-generated ones. The script might be changed, if feasible, to allow for the usage of "BEGIN LAYER" and "END LAYER" names. An alternative would be to utilise "TOP" and "BOTTOM" on the manual padstacks.

Thank you for response!

I hope there is any workaround to force script-generated padstacks to use BEGIN LAYER and END LAYER naming. Unfortunately, I can't change the manually made ones, as over the years we already prepared more than thousand of them in this way.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve the issue? I have even tried loading manually created padstack, but SKILL changes layers' names anyway...

Hello revida marcos, If you define a padstack from padstack editor where the design layer names comes as "BEGIN Layer" and "END Layer". Now once you placed a symbol having this padstack in board and you invoke padstack editor from the brd file, it will show the Layer Name same as your cross-section stackup layer name. So there will be no discepency after the symbols/pads are used in board.