Hello everyone!
I hope everyone is well. I also hope everyone is enjoying the course! It's been a busy week -- so I'll keep this short!
This week in our webinar series, we have "Design Tips and Cost Saving Tricks with the Gracia Brothers" It should have a little bit of something for everyone -- so please sign up here if you are interested! The next two weeks we will hopefully see Chris Hunrath from Insulectro return with a two-part webinar on flexible PCB material selection. I'm still hammering out webinars for the end of May, but June 4th will be Bob Hausherr of PCBLibraries.com with information about IPC-7351 and his latest software release (Bob's software can build your part library from manufacturer part numbers).
Week 4 content will become available on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. Pacific time.
Week 4 Readme
Prerequisites:
At this point you should:
- Complete everything in the Week 3 Readme
- Read What are Footprints and Land Patterns?
- Contributed to or read EDA Specific Resources for Land Pattern Creation
- Asked or answered questions in Easy Land Pattern Footprint Creation for your EDA Software group.
This Week
Last week you found all of the IPC-compliant parts for your land-pattern library. This week you will create the rest. You will need a combination of the information available from your EDA program's "Getting Started" and training libraries, and the information in the Custom Land Pattern Creation document.
A new Forum: Custom Land Pattern Creation will be available for you as well.
Activities
This week, we will:
- Read Custom Land Pattern Creation
- Ask and answer questions in the Custom Land Pattern Creation forum
- Create any land patterns you were unable to find last week.
Roadmap
Next week we will:
Goals
EDA Program
Create footprints for the following parts from scratch.
- Display
- Battery Input Footprint
Have a great week! See you in the forums!