My next project will take into the realms of the barely visible: PCB estate is at premium. So I decided to bite the bullet and switch to 0402 sized SMD parts, rather than 0805 I use by default'. Now, what size should the footprint be? The one supplied by the default lib of pcb seems to be real small (/pcblib-newlib/geda/0402.fp). John Luciani's 0402 footprint is about twice the size.
The majority of parts will be populated by a third party in a reflow oven. I guess, they are ok with the small size footprint. They even told me not to choose large footprints as this would encourage tomb stoning. However, I will need to manually rework some of the more sensitive resistors. Would that be possible with the small size footprints? Any recommendation? ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
