John,
How are you ever gonna know if you don't ask?
As Steve stated the solderpaste aperture is shaped like home base in
baseball. The triangular end reduces the amount of solderpaste deposited under
the metalized contact of the chip component. So for a simple chip component you
end up with two home base shaped apertures pointing towards each other.
Camtastic 2000DE has a tool for homeplating, it is under Tools, SMT
Utilities, Homebase Pad Conversion. Not perfect in it's operation, it
sometimes pulls some stupid little tricks on you like altering two pads that
weren't actually a component pair.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
#14 - 1925 Kirschner Road,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: John Echols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:28 AM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PEDA] 0402 Land Pattern
Hate to ask, but what is homeplating?
John Echols
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