On Fri, 6 May 2011 12:24:48 -0700 Andrew Poelstra <as...@sfu.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:54:41AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > I am confused why pcb won't allow me to add a thermal to a via and > > to a through-hole pin. I am trying to connect these to the ground > > plane. Clicking the via or pin with the "THRM" tool has no effect. > > I expect it to add the X connecting the pin/via to the surrounding > > polygon ground plane. > > > > I even tried using the exact command given as an example in the > > SetFlag action section on the pcb manual > > > > SetFlag(SelectedPins,thermal) > > > > but I get the following result in the message window: > > > > SetFlag(): Flag "thermal" is not valid > > > > It appears that "thermal" is not supported by ChangeFlag (and > SetFlag, which calls it). I believe this is a documentation > bug. > > Instead try > SetThermal(SelectedPins, 1) > > (the numbers 1,...,6 give different styles, and 0 means no thermal). Thanks for the tip. It works great in a minimal test board but it still fails with my real layout. Try it and see. Here's the board: <http://gibibit.com/upload/2011-05-06_Thermal_problem_1.pcb> I want to add a thermal to J1 pin 1. It is in the netlist as connected to GND. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user