Single sided boards do not have plated holes, so pad diameter for pins must be greater, usually two to three times the drill size. Some footprints have very small pads which will be too weak if used for single sided board. If pins are arranged in rows then oval pads may be a solution.
> Design for two-sided, but with all the traces on the solder side. > When you dump your gerbers, delete the component side one and rename > the plated-holes one to unplated-holes. Voila! A single sided board. > > It's all just names when you're doing single sided. There's no such > thing as a single sided board - just a double sided board with nothing > on one side. > Wojciech Kazubski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user