The '+' Polarity Symbol Dimensions
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Printed Date: 15 Sep 2025 at 7:15pm
Topic: The '+' Polarity Symbol Dimensions
Posted By: m.elsayed
Subject: The '+' Polarity Symbol Dimensions
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2025 at 6:58am
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I have '+' polarity marker in Silkscreen and Assembly layers with same dimension as line width = 0.05 mm and size = 1.016 mm However, when open in Altium Designer the '+' symbol has different dimension values. Footprint Expert:  Altium Assembly:  Silkscreen:  |
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Posted By: tgrodnicki
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2025 at 11:22pm
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Footprint Expert reports the length of the lines forming the cross as the maximum value. Most CAD programs do not account for round ends when reporting the length of the lines. If you subtract the width (0.050) from the length reported by Footprint Expert (1.016), you get the result reported by Altium Designer (0.966).
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Posted By: m.elsayed
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 5:51am
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But also, I found in line width changed to 0.254 mm other layer assembly. However, I changed the line width to 0.05 mm. |
Posted By: Tom H
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 3:25pm
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I created a Silkscreen Plus + symbol in Footprint Expert 1.00 mm X 0.15 mm line width. Here is the Footprint Expert Symbol dialog box:  I translated the footprint to Altium and here are the Plus Symbol dimensions.  Here is the Altium Properties for the Polarity Marker:  It seems to be working 100% correct. Can you confirm that the issue you reported is working correctly? ------------- Stay connected - follow us! https://twitter.com/PCBLibraries" rel="nofollow - X - http://www.linkedin.com/company/pcb-libraries-inc-/" rel="nofollow - LinkedIn |