I need to solder a through hole ZigBee as though it were an SMD part.
The other side of the board is a touch pad so there should not be any solder or components on it.
I think it is better if I can make plated half-drilled (one side drilled) holes.
Is there a way to create such holes in Eagle?
As in this photo:
Best Answer
There is no way to directly do this in Eagle. You would have to simply annotate the design on some reference layer (most manufacturing data for production PCBs has some form of reference information).
However, this would be a highly customised PCB step and you would have to negotiate with various vendors until you can find one who has the capability to do this which would be exceedingly expensive ($500 or more probably). None of the pooling services (OSHPark, ITead, Ragworm, etc.) will do this as standard.
Fortunately there is a much simpler and bog standard way to do this. Surface mount PCB sockets:
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These are soldered on pads on the PCB and would allow you to plug in your module. Because they are surface mount there are no holes at all meaning you don't need some non-standard process, and you can place whatever you like on the other side of the board.