On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:39:19AM -0500, Harry Eaton wrote: > Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > >Why is it possible to make a thermal for pin, but not for a pad? > > > > > The reason is that pins usually have sufficient spacing that the plane > surrounding them remains intact on all sides and pads usually are so > tightly spaced that they do not. Because of this you must manually draw > the thermal "fingers" to connect the pad to the ground plane. Be sure > that you have the settings such that new lines connect to planes when > you draw them. If you need to make several such thermals, spend a little
The thermal could be just a rectangle to bridge the clearance gap. And one could select between thermal that connects only on the ends of the pad and thermal that connects in all 4 points. CL< > time making the first one just the way you want then copy the fingers to > the buffer and paste it where you want the others. > > h. >
