The particularly problematic issue I was having is a TSSOP footprint that has a thermal pad to be hooked to GND node. Obviously I want to use a rectangle for more heat dissipation, but pcb was creating clearance around it.
Using the technique in the message, I created a line starting from the center of the thermal pad, and then continued to draw a rectangle using lines to cover up the clearances created by the thermal pad in the footprint. It works but it seems awfully cludgy... is this the best way to handle that scenario? --James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 22:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Assign polygon/rectangle to a net in PCB http://www.delorie.com/pcb/docs/gs/gs.html#SMT-Blinker (unfinished) Planes are not "assigned" to nets, they're connected to them. Connect one pad (using the thermal tool or traces (make sure "settings->new lines clear polygons" is NOT selected)) and press "o" to optimize rats. Then PCB knows which pins go to the plane instead of to other pins. You still have to connect them all manually, but at least it indicates them correctly. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
