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JUNE 2021 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 37 John Steinar Johnsen is senior technical advisor at Elmatica. To read past columns or contact The PCB Norsemen, click here. However, even as advanced as the technol- ogy might currently be, sometimes it's great to get back to the basics, ask the simple ques- tions, and before thinking about the cool and advanced features, make sure that what you are thinking of designing, actually is designable. Just ask, and you will get an answer. And make sure the source is reliable, because that's what you expect from your PCB. PCB007 Figure 10: a) All via pads are kept; b) All non-functional via pads are gone. Figure 11: Enable this feature: teardrop or snowmen. a) b)