The platform includes a component editor, which helps users define single and multi-part components via visual/electrical parameters. Thanks ya'll for the help and support.DipTrace is a schematic and printed circuit board designing software that enables businesses to create multi-layer boards and 3D designs. I'm going to save those questions for later to see what I can figure out on my own. And when I ran a trial of make a PCB from my schematic, it had no errors and actual looked like a PCB. I'm good with assigning a pattern to a component. I think I understand the PAD and the silk (outline).

I do not have a handle on the layers and process of making a board. I am bumping that way up to 0.100' per bend. This makes getting in and out with an iron a snap if you need to do any rework or repairs.' The lead bend from body at. While you can get them closer, if you've got the board space use it. As far as component to component spacing, I tend to lay out 1/2w and 1w resistors with about 200 thou ( 0.51mm) spacing between them, and 1/4w at around 150 thou (0.38mm). With respect to the pad and hole size, take the nominal lead diameter and add 12thou (0.3mm) and round up to the nearest drill size for your hole, then double that value for the pad size. This should be approximately IPC standard but I may be wrong so don't quote me on that. Ideally you want about 100thou (0.25mm)between the bend and the body. 'The thumb rule I like to use is 1w resistors get 700thou (1.78mm) pad to pad spacing, 1/2w 600 (1.52mm), 1/4w 500 (1.27mm), etc. Is that more acceptable? Here are AMDOC's suggestions. Do I use ANSI or ISO drill bit sizes? I tend to like my units to be mm, but all the drill sizes are in 1000ths, and that's what the doctor ordered. Which should I pick and why isn't round an option? (I think I'v picked oval) I've followed AMPDOCTOR's rules of thumb for PAD size and spacing. In the Pattern editor my options for PAD shape are Ellipse and Oval. That's because I keep screwing up my calc's and I am accumulating components.

I have 30-50 set up, but I'll only need a dozen. Hi, I've been setting up my component and pattern libraries in DipTrace.

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