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Re:DIY Through Hole Plating of PCBs (2017) by gh02t on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:57AM (#26456374)
They don't, at least not conductive ones. Volterra drills through holes but they aren't conductive. They recommend using rivets or less preferred is filling them with conductive ink and baking, but that's a huge pain and I imagine most people just use a piece of wire instead or try to avoid vias altogether. Othermill works the same way.

Usually you want to design your board around this limitation, which is why I generally don't recommend them for people looking to prototype PCBs with the intent of having them professionally manufactured later. IMO their niche isn't really as a replacement for a manufacturing service, more as a quick turnaround tool that lets you make one-off boards as needed.

Re:DIY Through Hole Plating of PCBs (2017) by a1369209993 on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:10PM (#26460456)
> just use a piece of wire instead

Pretty much this. If you can solder though-hole resistors on one side of the board, and you can solder though-hole resistors on the other side of the board, you can line the holes up and solder a trimmed-off resistor lead to both sides. Sure it takes time, but so does soldering through-hole components in the first place.