Drilling Holes

You can drill a flexible board with cutouts, holes and circular cutouts (it can be compared with a user pattern of holes in Circuit Board Design). This command allows drilling the Circuit Board Design holes. Moreover, it is important to notice that the Circuit Board Design holes will be only displayed in the unfold view. The creation of Circuit Board Design holes on a flexible board is not possible, only the command Compare and Update can create them.

Before you begin: Activate a flexible board representation.
  1. From the ECAD Collaboration section of the action bar, click Compare & Update .

    Note: It is only available in the unfold view. Otherwise a message appears: 
    The current view is not appropriate for this operation. Would you like to switch to the appropriate view? Yes / No

    If you click No, the command is finished. If you click Yes, the view is switched and the Circuit Board Design holes are drilled.

    The Report opens, displaying the discrepancy between the flexible board and the hole object in IDF format.
  2. In the Report window, select the new holes you want to insert in the flexible board and the contextual command Validate selected modification(s).


    Then in the report, the new holes get the Accepted status.
  3. Click OK and you obtain:


    The hole's entities appear in the tree. The holes' spots are designed on the flexible board, you can now drill them.
    Note: If a Circuit Board Design holes represents several IDF holes, a circular cutout is created. If a Circuit Board Design hole represents one IDF hole, a hole is created. As the multi-selection of Circuit Board Design holes is authorized, the result can be a combination of the two.
  4. Select one or several holes and click Drill Holes from the Edition section of the action bar.


    Note: To have access to the properties of the holes or circular cutouts (Owner, Hole Type, Associated part, Subtype), a Flexible Circuit Board tab is available when you select the Properties contextual command of a hole.
    Warning: if the flexible board is moved, the holes will not follow.