On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Tamas Szabo <sza2k...@freemail.hu> wrote: > John Luciani wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Tamas Szabo <[1]sza2k...@freemail.hu> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Can I make a pin without plating and put the footprint only to the >> component side? If yes, how can I do it? >> >> It sounds like you want a copper ring with an unplated hole. IIRC >> pins create copper on both sides. > > Is this mean that I unable to create a pin with one-side pattern? Or is > it still possible some how? > >> A square pad with rounded corners is a circle. You could try placing a >> mounting hole in the center of a component side square pad with >> rounded corners. The fab may not produce a clean edge on the hole. > > Actually, I need to create a pinboard (bed of nails), in which case, > sometimes (hopefully never) I should remove the solder from the pins to > be able to remove the board itself and this operation is extremely hard > if the holes are plated and soldered on both sides. > > Do anyone plan to implement this kind of functionality in pcb? > > /sza2
All the bed-of-nails pins I've seen have come in sockets. you solder in the socket, then you can remove the pin by pulling on it. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markra...@midwesttelecine.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user