I have no idea if they'll have it fixed next week or in 5 years. They say they are working on the problem, so they know their tools are behind the curve here. I have been emailing back and forth with Osh Park tech support in order to fully understand the issue and their requirements. I understand what's going on much better now than I did a day ago. So, yeah, I was set on this path in part by their documentation, in part by it taking a second to realize that 'oval' != 'ellipse' in DipTrace speak (maybe call it a 'slot' in the UI?), and in part by not understanding drill files could do slots. Yes, Osh Park is who I've been using for boards, because, except for this one issue, their pricing and service is hard to beat for small runs and prototyping. If this is the way to do this, what are the solutions to the above issues? I'd like to suppress those errors but still see errors when something is too close to the actual board outline. This seems like it should work, but a couple of issues I've noticed:ġ) In the pattern editor, the pads obscure the cutouts entirely, so there's not really any way to visualize the cutouts in the pattern.Ģ) When using the pattern in a board layout, I get design rule errors because there is 0 gap between the pads and the cutout. What I've done is make pads as SMD pads, placed them on the bottom layer, and then added rectangular cutouts in the board outline layer.

I understand I can use oversized circular holes (the alternate layout), and I've done that, but it makes accurate positioning of the component difficult and is just sloppy. Hi, I'm trying to make a pattern to use for this part, using the recommended layout:

Diptrace pattern editor through hole