Standoffs on PCB

[MullisMan]

I'm going to be using the plastic standoffs that can be purchased from Small Bear to mount my PCB to my enclosure.  I'm using the Eagle CAD software and the gaussmarkov libraries for my parts.  I don't see anywhere in the library to place a hole in the board for these standoffs.  How do I put a hole large enough in the board to make room for the standoff and what is the diameter of the standoff?

[potul]

There is a library in the default eagle package called "holes". You have there several different hole diameters.

[MullisMan]

Ok cool I found that, however I'm looking on Mouser for the datasheet and it's pretty unclear on the diameter of the standoff.  I don't know how big of a hole to put in the PCB.  I'm using the standoffs with part # 561-LAD187 on Mouser.

[.Mike]

Check out the datasheet...

"Fits Recommended Hole Size of .156 - Panel Thickness 1/16˝"



Mike

[MullisMan]

I did see that, however it labeled that column as length above, so I was a little confused.  That's going to make my PCB hole about 4 mm, and that looks absolutely huge on my PCB design in Eagle.  Time to move some parts around....

Thanks for the help!