Drill template doesn't match actual PCB

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marcelomd

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Hi,

The drill templates for my boards seem to be a few mm smaller than they should be. Measuring by placing the PCB over the template. The drill guides should align (at least horizontally) with the potentiometer pads.
I suspect it has to do with some conversion between paper sizes (I have A4 paper). I opened the PDFs on Inkscape to force 1:1 scale printing. It didn't work.
I suppose I could bend the potentiometers a bit, but one of the PCBs has multiple toggle switches (Crunch Capitain Deluxe) and they are mounted flush to the PCB.

I found some templates with dimensions here in the forum, but they don't match my PCBs.

Are this dimensions listed somewhere? I don't mind making my own template, since I'll be doing a dual build.

Thanks!

EDIT: The boards are: Crunch Capitain Deluxe, Bootleg Overdrive and an Obsidius Preamp
 
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If it's close you could drill the holes out till they fit and use washers if needed.

If worse comes to worst, then at least you've got a contender for @fig s latest competition: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/mark-it-donnie.8180/#post-73572

I'm not well versed in the graphics side of things (or any side of anything, really) but I always download the PDF at 100% and then drop it in to Inkscape and it has worked fine.
 
I have to say, I built a Bootleg recently and the drill template in the support documents worked perfectly for me. Everytime I print a template the program always defaults to 95% size, though.
 
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