i draw a slightly larger rectangle and turn off its clearances with s. Note that this rectangle will not clear for anything!!!
Steve On Jun 16, 2008, at 5:03 PM, James Johnston wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
