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Re: Additional Patch for via properties dialog (2)

 


On 22/08/17 18:25, jp charras wrote:
Le 22/08/2017 à 05:55, hauptmech a écrit :
Manufacturing techniques vary between manufacturers and continuously evolve. Why would kicad limit
itself to what eurocircuits can do? They have optimized their process for quick turn prototyping and
while they document their process nicely, they are probably not a good reference for what can be done.

On 21/08/17 05:44, jp charras wrote:
Before working on blind and buried vias dialog, please have a look at:
https://www.eurocircuits.com/blog/Blind-and-buried-vias
Currently there is no control in Kicad.

Sure, but it looks like there are some constraints on blind/buried vias (microvias are blind/buried
vias) depending on board houses.

So it could be worth to be able to control these constraints inside Kicad (at least to have a
minimal control).

We currently have a DRC which detects too small clearances and track widths:
this is most of time due to manufacturing constraints which continuously evolve.

I don't think I have enough understanding of the proposal to have an opinion. I just want to caution against creating unnecessary limitations in kicad. It really depends on the board house. I used to work for one and there were quite a few atypical techniques used for customer specific projects (many kept confidential to that customer).






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