At 02:51 PM 2/4/2002 +0000, Andrew Ircha wrote: >Is there any point to thermal relief on vias to planes? I can understand >through hold pads for a through hole component, but for just stitching a >flood to a power plane I can't see the point.
No, there is no point, though it is usually harmless. Best practice is to set all vias for direct connect to power planes and to polygon fills. Design/Manufacturing/Power Plane Connect Style/Add Design/Manufacturing/Polygon Connect Style/Add Add rules with scope: Filter kind/Via Specification/Specification and uncheck all the fields so that it will apply to all vias. Then set the Rule Attributes to Direct Connect. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
