I'm not sure this is what the OP was trying to do, but there is surely
an easier way of stitching ground planes. Starting from a ground node
draw a track to the location of the first via, right click to place a
via, move to the position of the next via, right click to place a via,
and so on.
I was doing a Radio UHF transmitter this month and having viaa in the
ground place was mandatory. I finaly found that is is *very* simple:
* In this example, ground id mostly in the bottom layer
* start a track in the botom layer from a nearby ground track
* change layers so that a Via is added
*
Thanks, this was indeed helpful. Also the Yahoo Groups via Google search
method.
--Jim
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Robert wrote:
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>
> This has been discussed previously. The Yahoo Groups search tool is
> pretty hopeless so I used Google to search for the relevant thread for
> you, which it
This has been discussed previously. The Yahoo Groups search tool is
pretty hopeless so I used Google to search for the relevant thread for
you, which it found first in mail-archive starting at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-users@yahoogroups.com/msg06539.html
Does that help?
Regards,
Ro
A number of components I've come across lately (DC motor controller chips,
ESD protection devices, for example) have a thermal or ground pad underneath
the chip. This requires that a large pad be included in the footprint, and
the usual recommendation is that several vias are used in this pad to
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