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Mounting hole Centering

nathstevenson

I have imported a dxf file in to my board design on OrCAD PCB Designer 16.6, the DXF outline has circles for the mounting holes however I believe I need to add a copper pad to the centre of the hole in order for the output drill file to be correct

 I have a copper pad that I can place by selecting to place manually and selecting it from the mechanical component menu, what I am wondering is whether there is an easy way to place the copper pad exactly in the centre of the dxf mounting hole as currently I am placing it and then trying to measure from the centre of the copper pad to the edge of the DXF mounting hole

 Thanks in advance for helping 

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  • eephillip

    Great, and if you map those actions to funckeys 

    funckey m move

    funckey e show element

    You can really get going pretty fast.

    What I should do is write a little skill function that will just copy the center coordinates directly to the clipboard without having to do the show element.

     

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  • eephillip

    Great, and if you map those actions to funckeys 

    funckey m move

    funckey e show element

    You can really get going pretty fast.

    What I should do is write a little skill function that will just copy the center coordinates directly to the clipboard without having to do the show element.

     

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