The pad center suggesting one and more on the grid, avoid when place it on the PCB causing the track hard to connect issue.That will helpful to rotation when you placing it on the canvas, and help to do the SMT more quickly. Suggesting the footprint center to be the origin point. To simplify rotating your symbols when they are placed into the canvas, make sure all of your symbols are created as near as possible centered around that point. You can via: “Top Menu - Place - Set Canvas Origin - By Center of Pads” to set the origin. When you save it, please fill the tags, description, the description suggesting add the footprint datasheet link and footprint size, that can help you or other people to recognize this Footprint whether if it can be used for the design.Ħ.Use the dimension tool to check the Footprint size, via: Top Menu - Tools - Check Dimension.ħ.Set the origin. The editor doesn’t support draw the retangle silk screen at present.ĥ.Filling the footprint title and prefix at the right-hand “Custom Attributes”, and then Save. Using the Track and Arc to draw the silk screen.And sometimes you can add some marking and text on the mechanical or document layer. If you want to move the pad by mouse or direction key by small steps, you can set a new snap size at the right-hand panel.Ĥ.Drawing the Footprint silk screen. And then set the coordinate for it, and place the less pads, you can use the “Top Menu - Align” tools to align the pads to fit the location. Depends on page 18, placing one pad on the canvas on the top layer, and then change the pad number, size, shape type etc.You can adjust the pad size base on your real usage situation. Such as PDF：UC2844BD1R2GĢ.Read the datasheet, notice the 0 degree of the Footprint (The 0 degree is the Footprint’s direction when you placed it on the PCB without rotation), the right 0 degree will helpful for PCB SMT.ģ.Check the footprint size, pad/pin direction and polarity, and then place the Pads on the canvas. Drawing Stepsġ.Downlod the datasheet which you need to draw the Footprint, such as SOIC-8. Start a new Footprint as shown below or by doing: The process of creating your own Footprints is very similar to how you make symbols for your own Schematic Libs.įootprint Tools almost are the same as PCB tools, just lacking some of the functions. There will be times when you will need a PCB footprint that is not already in the EasyEDA libraries.

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