Need help laying out a footprint for a socket

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100pin QFP.zip (135.6 KB)

Quick question on sending the Gerber files out; do I have enough here for them to produce the board?

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I don’t see solder masks.
It’s a good idea to create a Gerber sub directory, just to contain Gerber and Echelon files. Your board house doesn’t need the KiCad files

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Also tick ‘use protel extensions’ and ‘4.6 format’ in the plot dialog as of now it won’t be clear how you did order you 4 layers there.
And yeah, solder masks are missing.
And drill map files are usually in .drl format, not .gbr

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results in this:

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It doesn’t hurt to add a readme.txt file, documenting the layer stack on 4 layer and more boards. Don’t make the pcb house guess what you wanted to do

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Thanks for the suggestions!

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Stack up also belongs alongside any fabrication notes. I usually drop a few blocks of text in the Dwgs.User layer and use it like a FAB Note/Board Dimension layer, then it’s contained within the layout itself, which makes it harder to “lose” than a text file.

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Thanks for all the help, the board has been sent in. Is there a rule of thumb for not looking at the design until the board comes back, ha.

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Looking is fatal, you are bound to find something wrong with silkscreen references etc and then end up worrying about it

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Merci beaucoup pour ce socket

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