Is there any situation to use the “pad type connector” than to use the “pad type SMD”?
The difference I see is the solder paste layer is by default disabled for the “pad type connector”.
I can only image the situation of a fiducial. Other than that, what is the use of choosing this type of pad?
It can, but you have to turn off the paste layer if you use a normal SMT pad (you don’t want paste on your edge connectors!) so there’s a different pad type for it.
OK. Im a bit new to this but a “pad type connector” is exactly what I want for a small board that’ll have a couple of discrete wires from the outside world soldered to it.
I see a “test point” and a 1x1 connector that would theoretically be usable, but is there a convention for a just plain “pad type connector” component?