Ben Jackson wrote: > 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. >
I think that what this implies is that you can't build a plane layer on the outside of a board )like an outside ground plane) with PCB? I used to do this all the time with other tools when designing RF circuits. Connecting up a bunch of polygons sounds a little tedious. Joe T _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user