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FP Designer Hole Size Issue

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Topic: FP Designer Hole Size Issue
Posted By: lalexman
Subject: FP Designer Hole Size Issue
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2017 at 6:01pm
In the Footprint Designer. if you change the hole size and regenerate the pad stack, thermal and anti-pads are not recalculated correctly.


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Posted By: Tom H
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2017 at 7:34pm
We'll have to wait on this one until Jeff gets back from vacation on Monday August 21.

In the meantime, all the values are user definable manually until the automatic functions are fixed. 

What I would do as a workaround, create a new pad stack with the correct Hole Size and delete the wrong one.
 


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Posted By: lalexman
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2017 at 6:59am
Thanks Tom

Posted By: Jeff.M
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2017 at 7:07am
Assuming you mean the pad stack manager (not pad stack designer) - where you can individually and directly change any element of a pad stack - the thermals are not recalculated.  In fact nothing is calculated.  All pad stack component changes must be manually entered.

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Posted By: lalexman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2017 at 7:11am
It is in FP designer. When you enter a new thru hole padstack the thermals and anti-pads are calculated. When you change the hole size they are not recalculated.

Posted By: Tom H
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2017 at 7:18am
When you change the Hole Size where? 
  1. The Pad Stack Designer?
  2. The Pad Stack Manager?
The pad stack should always update if when you change the Hole Size in the Pad Stack Designer. 

The Pad Stack Manager is to allow the user to "Off-Road" and ALL pad stack values must be manually changed. 

This is a feature, not a bug. 



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Posted By: lalexman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2017 at 7:26am
OK. Understand. I did not realize there were two screens that looked the same but operated differently.
 
Thanks


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