[PEDA] Octagonal Pads

[Steve Hendrix]

At 2006-11-27 22:54, you wrote:
>I don't know whether other users are avoiding the use of such pads (having
>an octagonal shape) because they are aware that there are (or at least have
>been) issues with such pads

Tally up at least one such user. I like the octagonal pads as 
depicted within Protel for both squeezing traces past on the diagonal 
and to mark "special" pads such as testpoints. But I've been burned 
too many times at fab time by hte fact that Protel's depiction 
doesn't match standard gerber. Thus I never use those any more.

Steve Hendrix