{"id":196,"date":"2012-02-24T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=196"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:18:15","slug":"pads-tips-tricks-mounting-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2012\/02\/24\/pads-tips-tricks-mounting-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"PADS Tips and Tricks &#8211; Mounting Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am starting a new regular topic to this blog \u2013 PADS Tips &amp; Tricks.\u00a0 These will be quick tips to help make you more productive in your day to day jobs as engineers and designers using the PADS flow.\u00a0 I have solicited these tips and tricks from many different groups from within Mentor, including the CSD AE\u2019s, field AE\u2019s, technical marketing engineers, and our software engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you find these useful.\u00a0 Also, if you have comments and additional suggestions about the tip, be sure to reply so everyone can benefit from your idea.<\/p>\n<p>The first one comes from Bill Tkachuk in CSD on mounting holes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mounting holes on the PCB design are deleted after forward annotation from the schematic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If mounting holes are manually added to the PCB design file, are \u201cECO Registered\u201d parts, and they do not exist in the schematic they will be removed when performing a Forward to PCB from the schematic.\u00a0 You should modify the Parts so that they are non-ECO registered, this way they will be ignored by the Forward to PCB command.\u00a0 Please follow the technotes listed below to change the mounting hole part type to NON-ECO registered and update the part in the design.<\/p>\n<p>Set part as NON-ECO Registered:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/technotes\/public\/technote.cfm?tn=MG25828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/technotes\/public\/technote.cfm?tn=MG25828<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update part on design from library:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/technotes\/public\/technote.cfm?tn=MG25320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/technotes\/public\/technote.cfm?tn=MG25320<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I am starting a new regular topic to this blog \u2013 PADS Tips &amp; Tricks.\u00a0 These will be quick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10310,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}