Olin,

You still don't understand. This is for boards that are NOT SENT TO A BOARD
HOUSE AT ALL, but that are homebrew etched and drilled.

(Sorry for the shouting).

Bob Ammerman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [EE]: eagle question ...


> > I think what is happening is that for a home brew project they are
> getting
> > Olimex to drill all holes one size, presumably the smallest required
> size. I
> > assume Olimex make the PCB cheaper this way, so they do not need to set
> up a
> > number of drill sizes in an NC machine.
> >
> > Means that it is really only useful for single sided boards though.
>
> I don't know about Olimex, but most board houses charge a flat fee for a
> reasonable number of drill sizes (like 5 - 10).  Even so, it's hard to
> imagine that the few pennies they might charge for an extra drill size is
> worth the loss of plated holes and hassle of having to drill the larger
> holes yourself.
>
> However, if that's what you really want, then it's very easy to do with
> Eagle.  Just edit the .DRL file so that all drill IDs are specified to be
> the same size.
>
>
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