Can you put a via through the pads?  Might also have the benefit of 
adding strength.

dwayne


At 02:51 PM 3/12/2010, Vitaliy wrote:

>Imagine that you have a metal clip that clips to the edge of a PCB. Since
>it's metal, it connects both pads (top and bottom), so there is no need to
>connect the two pads on the PCB: they are guaranteed to be one signal when
>the clip is installed.
>
>So, how do you create a device for this clip? You can give the same name to
>multiple pins (GND@1, GND@2, etc) but what if you have two pads, but want
>the symbol to only show one pin? And, you need EAGLE to know that once you
>connect a signal to the top pad, the bottom pad gets connected
>automatically?


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