Altium Pads/Hole Style

[brue]

Hi

I would like to Style my Pads like here:

http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Datei:PartialDrilledBoard.png

with a hole of copper in the middle. So it shoud be easyer to drill the holes manually.
Is it possible to make this?

Thanks

[peter_mcc]

Do you mean a large pad and a small non-copper area in the middle?
If so, just make your pad "large" and the hole "small".

Peter

[Randall W. Lott]

I would suggest using the octagonal pad style if you'd like to mimic this.  Be sure to create an annular ring large enough so pad breakout isn't as big of a problem with drill misalignment.

The annular ring is the pad area that is remaining after drilling.  A typical recommendation is to size the pad to be at least 80% larger than the hole.  I'd have it even larger if I'm drilling by hand.