On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:39:31AM -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote: > Steve Meier wrote: > > I am also interested in why you would want a thermal for connecting a > > via onto a pad in which the via is sitting. > > ?? OK, I'm still under-caffeinated, but I don't parse your question. > I'm guessing you missed my initial rant? What I was trying to do is > create an oblong pin to ease hand soldering. So I created a pad > overlapping a pin to create the desired shape. The whole effort > foundered because pcb won't create thermals on the resulting oblong pins > -- pcb give the pin a thermal flag, but the thermal doesn't render > because of the overlapping pad.
You can't thermal it to a surface layer, but you can thermal it to an inner layer. You've always had to draw lines to pads to connect to any surface polygons. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ben.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
