Make hobbyist PCBs with professional CAD tools by modifying "Design Rules"

Step 10 Optional: adjust pad SHAPES

In the SHAPES panel, I like to force the pad shape to ROUND, since I've already made the pads very large in the RESTRING panel. The oval pads get VERY large when you use big restring values... This is optional, though:

Comments

[hannobisschoff]

Thank you very much for your extremely helpfull tutorial.

[renoir]

Nice tutorial! It explains a few things that I was mis-understanding, like the word "check" = "modify" :-). I assumed it would just complain about pad sizes, etc, not change them for me. Nice tip about drili-aid.ulp too :-)

[Leroy]

Thank you for taking time to explain EAGLE's design rules clearly and concisely. You have helped me enormously.