Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 22:29:58 EDT 2008 | davef
For most applications, a nice square [or rectangle] pad works just fine. Assemblers ship boat loads of boards with these every day. It's reasonable for tight decoupling capacitor requirement applications to use round or radiused pads for components
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 19 13:25:19 EST 2002 | russ
We actually look at it like this, The area of a circle that will fit into a square is less. (slight overprint with square aperture with radiused corners) Russ
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