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Adding drills to SMT ground Pad

I have a SMT IC that has a center ground pad. The recommended footprint (enclosed) is showing five vias in the pad, one in the center and one in each corner. Does anyone know how to add these vias in the padstack? I understand that there is the ability of adding multiple drills in the pad designer, but it seems to want to put the same number of holes in each row and column. Thanks.

ground pad with five drills.doc

redwire over 9 years ago

When you build the part and have placed all the pads. Add->Connect and then click on the pad. Then right mouse->Add Via.

You will then see the via in the pad. ( Depending on your settings it might jump back to the center of the pad.)

Once you have one via down, you can switch to copy mode and do an array copy or just copy it as many times as your Row X Col size is.
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RickP over 9 years ago

When I look under Add I do not see "Connect" as an option. It just lists the following options: Line, Arc w/Radius, 3 pt arc, Circle, Rectangle, Frectangle, Text & Flash. I am using Orcad PCB Editor 16.6.
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steve over 9 years ago

Try Layout - Connections
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