Kicad 7.01 reporting false clearance violation?

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it is very weird… I have a component that had NTPH pads with a clearance overwritten at 3mils; still it’s reporting clearance violation.

Any taughts?

Best Regards,
Andrei

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Two things:

  1. Clearance and Hole Clearance are different. You cannot override Hole Clearance for an individual pad except through using custom rules – the GUI you show is just for copper clearance.

  2. You cannot use any mechanism to override a rule below a board minimum. Your DRC error (and the clearance inspector) is showing you have set a board minimum hole clearance of 9.84 mils, so this is going to be the absolute minimum even if you try to override it somewhere else.

Check the Constraints tab of Board Setup to see the board minimum values.

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Thanks Jon,
Good to know!

Best Regards,
Andrei

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